AMWD Offices and Workshops

Hi

I wonder if anyone could help with a drawing/s of the AMWD buildings that surrounded the high level watertower on later L and M scheme airfields. Those as built on Middleton St George, Oakington, Waterbeach, Swinderby amongst others. Its the type with the open lattice tower drawing number 15975/39 and not the earlier brick type (just a general elevation plan of the buildings would be a great help). The buildings comprised of workshops, stores, a 100,000 gallon reservoir, substation and pump house, gas defence centre and garages, plus the watertower itself.

Its for a computer 3dmodel, any help would be great.....

I'll record my progress here when I get enough information

Thanks

Stevo

Hi

Ive drawn this top down view using GE as a guide, wonder if anyone can add anything to it? I had some pictures of the inside of the store room courtesy of Richard Flagg which I've drawn in but I dont know what the inside of the other building look like.

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If anyone can help add anything it would be great, doesnt have to be super accurate its only for a 3dmodel.

Thanks

Stevo

Nothing?

Unfortunately not very familiar with this type having only seen the Permanent Brick or concrete versions.

Where are surviving examples of these now, as a number have been lost in recent years unfortunately...

Hi

I dont imagine they were very different internally to the earlier brick and concrete versions in terms of layout, only the store room seems to be either narrower or wider on earlier examples..but I'm not sure if that makes any difference to the internal layout. So if anyone has anything on the layout of the other types i can just adapt to fit in my model, when I start it...

These are the ones I know which still have this type-

Coningsby
Colerne
Lyneham
Middleton St George
North Luffenham
Ouston
Swanton Morley
Waterbeach

Stevo

I'll see if I can find the drawings in Archive during the week.

I think the building layout is almost completely different. Will be interesting to compare the two plans though.

Thanks Paul

Please dont go out of your way though, I just though someone here might have had the opportunity to take internal pictures which would have been good enough for the model. Richard has some which I have of the store room and one looking down a corridor but I dont know where in the building that was taken, It was Swinderby's as it was being demolished.

I couldn't tell you which bit of it at Swinderby it was either Stevo, half the building was missing when I had a look!

I think you have all the pics I have taken of them but I'll check when I am home.

The one at MStG might have been demolished this year? I have a few poor external photos of it (David Thompson will probably have others and know for certain if it was one of the areas flattened this year).