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19 Jan 2015 18:40 #1
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Plan A is always more effective when the problem you are working on understands that Plan B will involve the use of dynamite
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I thought we had a group entitled 'Admiralty and Naval Sites' etc; can't find it. We have one on 'War Office and Army Units' and there are 70 threads in it. Hence no idea where to post this.
Looking at an Admiralty works programme dated March 1943, I noted some points of interest:
There was an allowance of £110,000 for AA domes and teachers.
New FAA stations at Crimond (£1M), Kirk Andrew, Ronaldsway £0.8M each) There is a faint pencil note next to Kirk Andrew which could be 'abandoned'.
Addition of roads at RNAD Broughton £26,000, plus final extension £120.000
Armament storage at Settle £22,000
An allowance of £1.27M for an RN Armament Depot at Duncombe. That was a lot of money and it demanded a workforce of 2,200.
New Mining Depot at Duirinish, £150,000
From the web:
RDF Building, Witley. £25,000
www.kesw.org/index.php/en/home/school-history
Bolero: Covered storage + contingencies at Rose Neath - £300,000 See LINK
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Looking at an Admiralty works programme dated March 1943, I noted some points of interest:
There was an allowance of £110,000 for AA domes and teachers.
New FAA stations at Crimond (£1M), Kirk Andrew, Ronaldsway £0.8M each) There is a faint pencil note next to Kirk Andrew which could be 'abandoned'.
Addition of roads at RNAD Broughton £26,000, plus final extension £120.000
Armament storage at Settle £22,000
An allowance of £1.27M for an RN Armament Depot at Duncombe. That was a lot of money and it demanded a workforce of 2,200.
New Mining Depot at Duirinish, £150,000
From the web:
The Second World War saw Duirinish being made a 'No 1 Protected Area'; part of the arable ground was dug out and was used by the Admiralty as an ammunition dump.
Trains came in and out day and night with mines and this area of ground is now known as the compound. It is just recently after 50 years that the village got it reinstated back into crofting.
RDF Building, Witley. £25,000
King Edward's School, Witley was commandeered by the Royal Navy during the Second World War to test and develop the use of radar. The school still remembers this with a plaque in the central area, a junction of corridors known as 'Piccadilly'.
www.kesw.org/index.php/en/home/school-history
Bolero: Covered storage + contingencies at Rose Neath - £300,000 See LINK
Questions:
1) Where was Kirk Andrew?
2) where was / is Duncombe?
3) Does Settle refer to the Air Ministry ammunition depot?
2) where was / is Duncombe?
3) Does Settle refer to the Air Ministry ammunition depot?
Plan A is always more effective when the problem you are working on understands that Plan B will involve the use of dynamite
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19 Jan 2015 20:38 #2
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I think Duirinish was used in WWI when the US Navy were bringing in 2000 mines a week to Kyle of Lochalsh to be transported to the East coast by rail. There were also sidings at Fodderty which were probably also originally used in WWII.
The Admiralty are listed as paying for the Fodderty sidings in WWII so either refurbished or built from scratch.
I sent this to RCAHMS a few months ago
In WWII Kyle of Lochalsh was a mining base
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Canmore
The Admiralty are listed as paying for the Fodderty sidings in WWII so either refurbished or built from scratch.
I sent this to RCAHMS a few months ago
I have a copy of Wartime LMS which has plans of the control centres and also a list of sidings built during WWII. Fodderty cost £11,700 and Duirinish (the book calls it Ourinish) £18.200. Both 1940 for the Admiralty. The Ministry of War Transport also paid £26,200 for a new marshalling yard at Inverness in 1943. There is a photograph of the sidings at Duirinish though I think both these originated in WWI when the mines were being moved from Kyle of Lochalsh to Invergordon. I will scan the picture later.
www.signalbox.org/diagrams.php?id=65
I have scanned and uploaded a sketch of the layout dated 1945 to www.signalbox.org/diagrams.php .
The box opened on 28/4/40 and closed 28/10/45. It is recorded as replaced by a ground frame with no suggestion that said ground frame was the box.
In WWII Kyle of Lochalsh was a mining base
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19 Jan 2015 20:40 #3
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If you have any references of Admiralty RNAD or use of railways then can you check Fort Augustus please.
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19 Jan 2015 22:42 #4
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One unknown RN building, might be Quinetic now(?)
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Admiralty building at Rosneath Point
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