Well blow me down, I just suggested making a list in the Donna Nook thread!
East Sussex Record Office hold correspondence relating to "Emergency Landing Grounds" proposed for:
Chailey
Ripe
Chalvington
Hurstpierpoint
The file is dated Jun-Sep 1942 so I assume these would be relating to ALGs. There are supposed to be plans with them but I haven't seen them. Of those listed above only Chailey was built.
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
Peter it seems we both made the mistake of not checking out old threads, whats worse we had both posted here too! Perhaps a senior moment for you and a lapse in concentration for me LOL!! And guess what its number 2,000 for me (posts that is not senior moments)
You can tell a builder from an archaeologist by the size of his trowel. Mine is a small one!
From what I gather and from what I have read there were more propsed ALG sites in the south during 1944. Swingfield was not used much but was up and running.
It would be interesting to find out where the other ALG's that were planned but not built actually were. And why they were not built.
Also Cruden Bay in Aberdeenshire was listed along with three sites in Anglesey, which although regarded as "unpromising" were down for inspection.
I believe all those that were never built were rejected after visits and may not have had any plans drawn up. Rhyl appears to have lasted a bit longer than the other but didn't make the final cut.
Source: ADM 1/13588
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
Peter
Surprised about Anthorn.. It was RNAS HMS Nuthatch as I recall and is now home to a large Wireless array of 13 masts each 700 ft. tall and also home to an atomic timepiece keeping our watches and clocks at the correct time. Seen in the back ground to the outdoor Victorian swimming pool at Powfoot split in half to keep males away from females!.Real spoilsports those Victorians.!!
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I put a post on the Lancashire section about a proposed naval airfield at Ulnes Walton. It became an American storge depot instead and today had Garth and Wymott prisons on the site.
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