There is a T2 on an industrial estate in Great Yeldham, near Braintree, which was removed in 1959 from Biggin Hill. Plans are underway to turn the building into a transport museum - there are already several railway vehicles, a Frankfurt tram, a dozen or so buses, a tank and several commercial vehicles in residence, some of which are actively undergoing restoration work. A good friend of mine keeps his Series IIA Land Rover there, which is currently midway through a complete rebuild.
Will grab some photos next time I am down there. Some of the other buildings also have a military look about them - not sure about their history though.
Hanger is located at Hunnable Industrial Estate, Toppesfield Road, Great Yeldham - sorry I'm useless with map refs
Browsing back through old issues of Airfield Review I found (in Vol 7, No 3, Page 19) a statement that No 60 M.U. RAF once operated out of a T2 hangar (re-located?) at Shipton railway station (about 5m NNW of York) with the personnel billeted in local villages.
The article goes on to say that the hangar was extant (in 1985) but difficult to recognise due to being extended to permit the storage of sugar.
I don't think it is there in your Flash Earth link. The original location (assuming it wasn't moved) was in the central cluster of buildings. I have made an attempt to draw its original location based on old maps. This, of course, assumes that the building on the map was a T2.
It appears that that the original building was extended to the west towards the railway line and apparently doubling its size. A further building was added to the east later but slighly detached and of similar size to a T2. This doesn't reflect the current layout of this cluster but it is possible that the later addittion to the east is the one still there. The extensions appear to be in situ in the 60s but the western two buidlings, one being the T2?, were removed sometime before 1990 leaving the eastern addition the sole survivor at this point. The current buildings added since 1990.
All dates are approximate as they depend on map updates matching publication dates.
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Here's a strange one, there appears to be a Mainhill behind a terrace of houses in Tucking Mill, Camborne, Cornwall. Hard to stop and investigate when your driving a truck, but will try and confirm sometime!
Does anyone know if the T2 hangar at Hemswell is the original one??? if so it seems to have been moved from its original location. I am assuming that there was only the one built, which seems to continue the line of the bombing circle. This is evident in the Night bombers film. If you look at where it is now it is further round to the East. Does anyone know if it was moved and why :confused:???
T2 at Elvington. Interesting one: possible Bellman in Driffield (market town), which I was told (during a job interview in 1983) came from RAF Driffield. I have no evidence that this is true, but there is or maybe was a Bellman hangar at Bradshaws Grains on Skerne Road in Driffield.
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When I came over to fly with some British pilots in the UK a few years ago, I was talking to someone who told me that his aircraft was stored in a WW1 building which originated from Minchinhampton. As I understand this was later to become RAF Ashton Down. I have been send photos of the building and I have looked at your websites and it looks like a super small version of the Robins hangar with canted sides and pitched roof. Can someone advise me to a definitive description of a Robins hangar, as from looking on your British websites the Robins name is used to describe various hangars and I would like to research this building further without being caught out by unreliable websites. Thanks you for the welcoming.
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