The 'Introduce yourself' Thread

Hi Alan! Great to see you on the forum!

Richard

Welcome back Alan,

as you are a local man perhaps you could determine the function and age of this 'Observation Post'

wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm?lat=5...3373&gz=20&oz=7>=1

Beware! There is a Cold-War ROC post in front of it; my interest is the tower behind it on the hillock.

Welcome to back to AiX, Alan

Another view of Peter's object, here on the left in distance; the ROC post is on the right. Looks interesting.

goo.gl/maps/yDFK

The "observation post" is brick built. Although I have taken Scouts climbing at Harboro Rocks over the road many times I have never seen this tower. There is another one near the Sheep Wash car park at Carsington Reservoir just down the road at approx. SK 2470 5252. If you google "Tower Carsington" you will get a good photograph.

My stepson said "Oh yes they were Observation Posts for the Dam Busters when they were practicing over the Derwent Dams." When asked how he "knew" that he couldn't remember but the fact that he spent a summer working for Severn Trent at Carsington some 3/4 years ago when he was at University.

This is the quandary

The Carsington Reservoir (post-war) structure we have recorded as a Quadrant Shelter for the former WW2 Carsington Range and it is discussed under another thread.
From my notes:

Carsington Range WW2

There was a practice bombing range located here during WW2

The target is recorded at SK248527 yet this is only 400 odd yards from the extant QS. The QS has been preserved and refurbished as a view point and information on display states that the the second QS was in a location now underwater and that the target area was on the opposite side of the reservoir near 'Fishtail Creek' also underwater.

The adjacent reservoir was constructed post-war.

The subject Observation Post has the structural attributes of a Quadrant Shelter but for what range? And, there should have been another. That said, if one wanted to make a structure purely for observation of a local area, it would look much the same.

Just noticed that there is a Panoramia photo viewable on Google Earth (with Photos checked 'on' in the Layers menu) which describes it as a WW2 ROC post.

Hi guys,

Many thanks for the welcome and particular thanks to Peter for the aerial phot of Deversoir.

Steve

I thought that's what a Twitter Tweeter who made a bad 'tweet' was called:)

Hello

I thought it only polite to introduce myself, have you noticed how few people actually introduce themselves these days?

My name is Simon, I am 34 years old and an IT professional (so they tell me) by trade. I live in Fakenham in Norfolk with my wife and daughter.

I have been keenly interested in aircraft (obsessed my wife says), both civilian and military since as far back as I can remember, by interest was probably sparked originally by my father taking me to Air Fete's at Mildenhall as a small child and since then I have been keen to attend air shows all over the country and my interests have grown.

For the past few years I have been really interested in old airfields of WW1 and WW2 and living where I do I have a plethora of history on my doorstep to delve into; including...

Sculthorpe
Bircham Newton
Docking
Langham
Little Snoring
Attlebridge

I am also really into photography so dragging my family around the countryside on a sunday afternoon looking for sections of broken concrete to photograph and trying to tell them that it has some histrocial significance is a given.

I would love to hear from anyone in my local area and really keen to obsorb information on any of the above airfields and others around my locale.

All the best

Simon

s1mon;74417 wrote:

... (obsessed my wife says) ... dragging my family around the countryside ... looking for sections of broken concrete to photograph and trying to tell them that it has some historical significance

You're saying all the right things there, Simon .

Welcome to AiX.

Graham