RAF Davidstow Moor Site No.10 Quarters.

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RAF Davidstow Moor Site No.10 Quarters.

RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.10 Quarters.

Site No.10 Quarters for Officers, Sergeants and Airmen. Mostly Hand Craft huts for quarters, Nissen & Concrete Block for Latrines & Ablutions. The Picket Post was a half size Nissen hut.
Half sized Nissen as Picket Post.
Half sized Nissen as Picket Post.
Hand Craft Hut.
Hand Craft Hut.
Hand Craft Hut quarters.
Hand Craft Hut quarters.

RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.10 Quarters.

RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.10 Quarters.
Site No.10 Quarters. Yellow on the plan.

Record Site Plan 4947/44

Tilly pickup utillity.
Tilly pickup utillity.
RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.10 Quarters.
RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.10 Quarters.

RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.10 Quarters.

RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.10 Quarters.

410 - Picket Post - N - 12404/41.
411 - M&E Plinth- 10 K.V.A.
412to417 - Quarters Officers - H.C. - 4men - 14420/41.
418 - Ablutions & Latrines Officers - C.B. - 17to24men - 16330/41.
419to428 - Quarters Sergeants - H.C. - 8men - 14420/41.
429to431 - Latrines Sergeants - C.B. - 32men - 16330/41.
432 - Ablutions & Drying Rooms Sergts' & A/men - C.B. - [57to80Sgt 181to252A/M] - 16329/41.
433to450 - Quarters Airmen - H.C. - 12men - 14420/41.
451 - Latrines Airmen - C.B. - 16330/41.
452 - Latrines Sergeants - 32men - C.B. - 16330/41.
C.B. = Concrete block.
H.C. = Hand Craft Hut.
N     = Nissen.

Record Site Plan 4947/44

Asbestos cladded hot tank..
Asbestos cladded hot tank..
The Brylcream Boys.
The Brylcream Boys.
Bath room.
Bath room.

RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.10 Quarters.

RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.10 Quarters.

410 - Picket Post - N - 12404/41.
411 - M&E Plinth - 10 K.V.A.
414 - Quarters Officers - H.C. - 4men - 14420/41.
421to423 - Quarters Sergeants - H.C. - 8men - 14420/41.
432 - Ablutions & Drying Rooms Sergts' & A/men - C.B. - [57to80Sgt 181to252A/M] - 16329/41.
ARS - Stanton Air-Raid shelters.

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Stanton air-raid shelter.
Stanton air-raid shelter.
411 - M&E Plinth - 10 K.V.A.
411 - M&E Plinth - 10 K.V.A.
ARS - Stanton Air-Raid shelters.
ARS - Stanton Air-Raid shelters.

RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.10 Quarters.

RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.10 Quarters.

All that was left in 2012.
432 - Ablutions & Drying Rooms Sergts' & A/men - C.B. - [57to80Sgt 181to252A/M] - 16329/41.
ARS - Stanton Air-Raid shelters.

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RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.10 Quarters.

RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.10 Quarters.
ARS - Stanton Air-Raid shelters

29 April 2012

RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.10 Quarters.
RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.10 Quarters.
Kit inspection.
Kit inspection.

RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.10 Quarters.

RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.10 Quarters.

432 - Ablutions & Drying Rooms Sergts' & A/men - C.B. - [57to80Sgt 181to252A/M] - 16329/41.
The design no. is 16329/41, which could be made in Nissen or Temporary Brick. T.B. is a half brick wall with buttresses equally spaced along the walls. Here they uses a concrete block as I am sure they were locally sourced. The windows would have been a standard Crittall steel frame. The tower on the end held the water reservoir in the top and a boiler house below. Coal would have been drawn from the Fuel Store in Site No.9. Usually a civilian boiler man would be employed to keep several boilers working, moving around the different sites on a bicycle.

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Drying room.
Drying room.
RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.10 Quarters.
Boiler man.
Boiler man.

RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.10 Quarters.

RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.10 Quarters.

432 - Ablutions & Drying Rooms Sergts' & A/men - C.B. - [57to80Sgt 181to252A/M] - 16329/41.
The water tower and chimney with access into the water tank via a ladder and hand rails attached to he tower.

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RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.10 Quarters.
A White Rose boiler.
A White Rose boiler.
Water tank in the tower.
Water tank in the tower.