We are a bit puzzled by our gymnasium on our airfield communal site. The chancel is large and we are trying to work out what it contained. It has a lot of chimneys, so we are not sure if this was for a heating boiler at one end or if there was a kitchen.
There is a three sided brick base at waist height at the join of chancel and gym, so we suspect this may have been made for an altar.
Does anybody have a plan drawing for Gymnasium 4911/42 which may shed light on the matter ?
Its RAF Tuddenham. Is that relevant? I thought this building drawing number was a standard design ?
Always if you expect to get definitive answers
There may be local variations or later modifications or you may have misidentified the building for instance
Baz you are correct the members area cost £10 per year. Yes drawing numbers are generally type designs but a gym could have upwards of three different numbers, the 4911/42 I assume you have got off of the site plan. From memory, this drawing refers to the gym only, not the chancel for example which might be 15424/41. I am not familiar with the Tuddenham building so I don't no whether it had a projection room extension which would be the third number such as 8891/42. There are other numbers, mostly referring to the original 1940 gym building which was smaller than 4911/42.
You can tell a builder from an archaeologist by the size of his trowel. Mine is a small one!
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