RAF Wroughton, Wilshire Site 5
2 x 'D' type hangars 3212-1313/36.
1 x Wardens
Office, guard room.
1 x semi detached Wardens
house.
1 x Heating plant.
RAF Wroughton, Wilshire Site 5
RAF Wroughton, Wilshire Site 5
Site 5.
RAF Wroughton, Wilshire Site 5
2 x 'D' type hangars 3212-1313/36 and the new Science Museum building that looks huge.
Thank you Andy Amor for the air-photos.
RAF Wroughton, Wilshire Site 5
Science Museum, Wroughton A sustainable museum and archive. Designscape Architects.
RAF Wroughton, Wilshire Site 5
Wardens Office, guard room and Wardens house. The two Wardens must have taken it in turns to guard the area 24hours.
RAF Wroughton, Wilshire Site 5
Wardens Office, guard room.
Sub Unit Type, could be plan number 2881/37.
RAF Wroughton, Wilshire Site 5
Type D hangar, which combines concrete construction with bow-string trusses. A total of 34 examples of these all-concrete designs were used on Aircraft Storage Units around the country.
Air Ministry Directorate of Works and Buildings drawings Nos. 3212-1313/36. Reinforced concrete walls and roof, asphalt covering.
Door section.
RAF Wroughton, Wilshire Site 5
Central Heating Station.
Large heating plant.
RAF Wroughton, Wilshire Site 5
Central Heating Station.
Originally it would have been a coal fired heating but by the end of WW2 it probably was turned over to oil fired system.
RAF Wroughton, Wilshire Site 5
The second type D hangar.
RAF Wroughton, Wilshire Site 5
The Science museum have added a new building here and on one of the cross runways a very large building has been built.
Science Museum buildings.
RAF Wroughton, Wilshire Site 5
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