Unknown Temporary Brick Buildings

While out and about today I came across a couple of temporary brick buildings. They were not on any dispersed sites that I am aware of but both situated roughly the same distance from each airfield.

First one was near Woodbridge
Located: www.flashearth.com/?lat=52.092846&lon=1....&z=18.8&r=0&src="msl"


Second one at Framlingham
Located: www.flashearth.com/?lat=52.205948&lon=1....&z=18.6&r=0&src="msl"


Both the buildings are the same size and have the doors in the same place, as they are both similar distance from the airfields I thought they must be connected, but what are they?

Could they be not airfield related,perhaps some other use such as Womens Land Army hostels or Searchlight/AA battery Richard?

Searchlight / AA battery is a possibility, I wondered if they could be any thing to do with RT or an Outer Marker of some description. Any other thoughts guys and girls?

That Q Site building is smaller than the ones I photographed above

REF wrote:

That Q Site building is smaller than the ones I photographed above

Hi Guys, yes I can see that now. At least I know what it is now...thanks

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While out and about today I came across a couple of temporary brick buildings. They were not on any dispersed sites that I am aware of but both situated roughly the same distance from each airfield.

First one was near Woodbridge
Located: www.flashearth.com/?lat=52.092846&lon=1....&z=18.8&r=0&src="msl"

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Second one at Framlingham
Located: www.flashearth.com/?lat=52.205948&lon=1....&z=18.6&r=0&src="msl"

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Both the buildings are the same size and have the doors in the same place, as they are both similar distance from the airfields I thought they must be connected, but what are they?

the one near woodbridge was some kind of communication site,it was in use by the Americans right until they left in 93 and had a small array of masts there. i seem to remember there was a 1 or 2 more similar buildings on that site but they got pulled down when the site became an entrance to a livery yard . i remember in the 80s / 90s it was painted the same colour as the other base buildings and had a brown plaque with a number you could see as you drove past on the nearby road
At Bentwaters there was a similar site that lay outside the base, both of these sites had a high fence and i know the one at Bentwaters was manned 24-7 as i got to know an airman who worked there. He joked about being cooped up in there . That small site of 1 or 2 buildings is totally gone now but i remember at the time wondering why it was outside of the base in its own fence and it lay directly next to the temporary accomodation nissan huts that was nicknamed locally Sin City . i remember in the 80-90s often seeing coloured women pushing trolleys of cleaning gear around Sin city,i guess sprucing them up for new occupants . the nissan huts all have gone but 2 dark green medium size cypresses trees are still there which somebody must have planted outside "their" hut in happier times

There was a similar hut near Chipping Warden airfield, just outside Banbury. It was situated on high ground a mile or so from the airfield and according to the A.M. plan was the W.T Transmitting site. It was there until a few years ago but I hadn 't seen it for a number of years and when I went back that way the owner of the site had demolished it and build a much larger barn in its place. Sad really, I never did photograph it.

NJD, the building you mention is still there I think, google maps view: maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=chipping+warden...cbp=12,356.6,,1,2.12"

I photographed it back in May this year, will dig out the photos when I get a chance