Relocated Hangars

Ah - 75% of the right letters, but in the wrong order! Thanks Peter.

Peter
That is the very drawing of RAF MU 225 that I have been searching for. Please could you send a PDF to me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
I can confirm that the base did store munitions. Many years ago I walked the site with someone who was based there and he explained where everything was located. After the war, some of the buildings housed refugees. The word Crabtree is a local name for that part of the woodland.
Many thanks Tim

Steve
I’m quite sure if it was you who kindly offered to send a PDF of the very small jpg drawing of RAF Crabtree:
[IMG] community/148832=17721-RAF Crabtree Warminster.jpg
If so please could you email it to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Many thanks
Tim

Grimsby Bus Depot
I was told that this was a former hangar but a 'bus spotting' friend of mine believes it to be the original tram shed , does anyone know differently ?

The Grimsby Telegraph states the tram depot used sea plane sheds from Killimgholme. www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/nostalgi...ruled-streets-941427

"When RAF Killingholme was closed on Jun 6, 1919 the hangers were taken to Grimsby and used to build the depot on Victoria Street. The majority of the hangers still stand behind the brick facade which bears the date 1925 for the tram corporation frontage."

The subject is covered in the Lincolnshire airfields section post 15. www.airfieldresearchgroup.org.uk/forum/l...holme?start=10#86485

thanks

I looked at the relevant thread after I did the original post, no structure in my thought!!! Added the link afterwards, I was also very surprised to find that I had the AR edition mentioned, never knew I had been subscribing that long

P wrote:

From historyofwatton.org.uk :

Queens Hall
In October 1952 Watton Parish Council called a meeting to consider what would form a suitable commemoration of the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. A large majority favoured the erection of a Public Hall as there was a long standing need for such an amenity in Watton. A commit*tee was appointed and quickly embarked on their formidable task of providing a Public Hall and the subsidiary task of organising Coronation Festivities in the town.

Within a year a suitable site had been purchased and the idea of using an existing steel hangar frame as the mainstay of the building was adopted and negotiations for such a frame commenced, A hangar was purchased on December 29th 1953 and in three weeks was dismantled and brought to Watton for cleaning and painting. Plans for the Hall having been approved by all the authorities concerned, the boundary wall, fronting Norwich Road, was breached and an entrance cut to the site on April 5th 1954.

Work on felling 18 trees, bulldozing out roots and excavating for building foundations preceded rapidly and by August 1954 the hangar frame was erected. Having complied with the necessary con*ditions for obtaining a Ministry of Education grant, notification was received from the Ministry during September that a grant of £1,762 would be paid by instalments, providing that the work was done by voluntary labour.

PB

Quuens hall now has its own website, www.queenshallwatton.co.uk/index.asp?pageid=646329. a more detailed history can be found there, there are pictures of the frame being erected, may point to the hangar type