Buffer Depots

kebecker;153668 wrote:

It is on the old A10' now the Lynn Roadl

Thanks kebecker

P wrote:

Survival update to the TNA Cold Store list.

GWR
Avonmouth: Extant
Banbury: Demolished
Cardiff: Demolished
Hereford: Demolished
Knowle: Demolished (not standard cold store)
Llantarnam: Extant
Newbury: Extant
Oxford: Demolished
Reading: Demolished
Shrewsbury: Extant
Stourport: Demolished
Stratford-on-Avon: Demolished
Warwick: Demolished
Wells: Extant

LNER
Bishops Stortford: Demolished
Doncaster: Extant
Ely: Extant
Goldsborough: Extant
Hexham: Demolished
Lincoln: Demolished
Luton: Demolished
Northallerton: Demolished
Peterborough: Demolished
St Albans: Demolished
St Helen's Auckland: Demolished
Willington: Demolished
York: Demolished

LMSR
Aintree: Demolished
Bedford: Demolished
Chelford: Extant
Llandudno Junction: Extant
Crewe: Extant
Derby: Extant
Heywood: Demolished
Kilmarnock: Demolished
Leeds: Demolished
Leicester: Demolished
Loughborough: Demolished
Sutton-in-Ashfield: Extant
Northampton: Demolished
Paisley: Demolished
Perth: Demolished
Preston: Demolished
Tamworth: Demolished
Wolverhampton: Extant

SR
Froyle: Demolished
Exeter: Demolished
Guildford: Demolished

The list is forever changing as buildings are demolished and redeveloped.

Betchworth (Surrey) extant
Quanton Rd Extant
Saunderton Extant
Tewkesbury Demolished ( concrete base visible on google earth)
Newbury (Hermitage) Demolished ( was cold store; now housing)
Farncombe (Surrey) Demolished ( was cold store)

Richard wrote:

Thanks kebecker

Assuming I have done this correctly wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm?lat=5...grat=None&rgrat=None

The Preston one was Im fairly certain next to the coal sidings.

Site of the Preston cold store is now Park Close off Cromwell Road.

ted wrote:

Re Hemswell I lived in MQ there 1969-70 and I am sure one hanger was grain then, re the 2001 F & M , from Leuchars we sent a couple of dozen control teams into Northumberland , Durham & Yorks, each was 2 x Jnco they had been on a 2 day course with the army prior to going on standby. This was after MAFF cock-up and an Army brigadier was put in charge of Ops. As soon as there was a suspicion on a farm it was cut off from the outside world by the police. on confirmation a military control team went in and acted as a link to Brigade HQ. They were the eyes, ears & mouthpieces on the ground, they told the police who could come on site or leave. eg they would tell HQ ready for X number vehicles; Contractor would then move in with plant load and by a clearly defined route take carcasses to disposal site; if there was a delay carcasses could be sprayed or powdered with lime- or slaughter could be delayed. It wasn't normal to take to a holding site. The whole thing was ill conceived but no doubt some MAFF desk wallah got an OBE for the plan to cart all this disease around the country. You are possibly aware in the 67 crisis HMF did the physical tasks contracters did in 2001, I spent 3 months working out of Oswestry RA training camp. No animals left the farm it resided on , the pits or fires were as near as possible to the central slaughter point on each farm but far enough to be safe, At cease work we disenfected our wellies PVC leggings & coats and into the back of a truck , at Oswestry the trucks were sprayed inside. everything we had worn that day was incinerated and we scrubbed down and then into a clean area to rerobe into clean gear.

I think we could be led astray about dates : Although CD etc went to mothballs in 1968 it was mainly ex WW2 stock that was sold off first, Some Goddesses and other vehicles went 70/71 but the bulk was retained , in 75 Scotland even did a lot of work to upgrade the remaining CD/AFS vehicles - by then known as Civil Emergency Columns and for fire- RED & Green Companies. Late in 75 the decision was taken to get rid of everything, So Strubby could have been a Buffer store as opposed to an Intervention store around 73-75. In 75 the plan to get rid of everything was thwarted by the trade unions as they saw all this mass of kit , most in mint condition flooding the market. It appears to have put a brake on the whole wind down, By the time the HO & scottish Office started to get to grips with it we had the 76 drought and lots of the vehicles and kit was issued out , again it was all put on hold, then came the 77-78 fire strike, and the rest is history. I think there is a definate overlap between Buffer and Intervention stores for grain , butter and tined meat. ?? Re Strubby I have never seen it mention in relation to CD assetts m other than grain.
TED

The Green Goddesses came in 2WD and 4WD versions. In 70/71 the 2WD versions were sold off, along with the pipe carrying vehicles that formed part of the fire columns. A column comprised 7 Command cars, 6 reconnaissance cars, 1 communication unit, 1 Contol Unit, 5 Transportable Water Units, 55 GP lorries (includes 12 pipe carriers, 7 petrol carriers), 1 Recovery vehicle, 30 self propelled pumps (Green Goddess) 38 Motor cycles.

Goldsborough cold store is here - www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.0013478,-1.402...41.39t/data=!3m1!1e3

just to the left of the 'fed ex' sign

Hi

Wr11 evesham.
I have been reading some treads on RAF sites and stumbled on RAF honeybourne.
My interest in this topic is I work at the mentioned unipart logistics site. Which I was told many years ago was a former MOD site.
My curiosity is around what the site was used for but what it looked like then.
Nowadays there are 5 main buildings and around 40 metal romney huts most orange and brown with the rust but are mainly still watertight.

However looking around you can find foundations of long since gone romney huts and also towards the side that now borders the prison there are foundations of what I think are 5 or 6 units with a perimeter pathway connecting it all. No idea what this was?

Comments around RAF honeybourne, was this connected to it? Was this part of it? I've looked for wartime aerial shots but can't see anything that allows me to relate it and get my bearings and see the site I know today in whatever guise.
Reading around a little thoughts suggest a bit of food storage, airplane dismantling, support functions to the main RAF site. Have thought about asking some of the older local folk there but not luck so far.

Thoughts, pointers, comments welcomed although i have 0% previous knowledge on airfields, MOD etc


Edit....
So wasn't raf it was us army?
Ok so again what did it do and look like?

US Army General Depot G-24 Honeybourne, retitled US Army Medical Depot M-424 from 27th June 1945.

Firstly thanks.
query designs and features make sense they were American.

Can I ask where this is reported,
The thefts and the medical supply sources.
I don't doubt it just want to have a look and read around it a bit. Still after that all elusive picture. Itd be nice to build a timeline on site of what it was to what it is now.