Rest Homes, ''Flak Farms'' of the Eighth Air Force.

Been speaking to one of my colleagues who was staying at the Buchanan Hotel in Drymen near Glasgow and that they've got pictures of American airforce folks recuperating there during the war..... will have to pop over and have a look sometime...and see what its about. canmore says the narby castle was a ww2 military hospital? canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/294246/det...l+and+military+camp/

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Eynsham Hall Nr Witney, Oxon. Sadly no commerative plaque is here.

A few that I took today.

Sadly still no commerative plaque anywhere.

Ironically for a 'rest centre' the land and woods to the south east - on the other side of the lake but within the boundaries of Eynsham Hall - was used as an overflow munitions storage area by the RAF's Forward Ammunition Depot Eynsham located 2.5 mils SE from the hall.

But, I think the USAAF had left by then (mid 1945)

Ahh - ! Eynesham Hall; I remember it from the early seventies when it belonged to the Home Office and was used as a basic training establishment for many of the police forces of our fair land. My intake was billetted in the huts in the grounds and among many other 'pleasures', Drill Sergeant W.W.King ( City of London Police) would take great delight in sprinting my squad, in full uniform up and down the main drive a few times at first light on a Monday morning 'to get rid of the sloth' of our weekend leave - ! A b*****d, but fair and everyone respected him. At our end of course p**s-up, he was the worst behaved - !

This is a A4 sheet with the history of Eynsham Hall, given to me by the receptionist yesterday, no mention of WW2. ?

I'm wondering if these are WW2 buildings, and if so, what are they. They are just the other-side of the hedge from the Bucklands Hotel which is now the Mongewell Nursery, Wallingford. Didn't see it when I first photographed this former Rest home. So photographed them today.

They certainly look WW2. The 'Old Maps' website doesn't show them on a pre-war map but they are on post-war. Look to be some kind of pumphouse but no boreholes recorded close by.

From the road it looked like a air-raid shelter, but as I got closer I could see that the smaller one is too small, and the larger one had the pipe sticking-out from it.