RAF Honeybourne Communal/Instructional Sites

Two sites to cover here, the Communal. Officers, Sergeants Mess's, the men's Institute and the dining room.

The Instructional we have a triple bomb trainer, a double turret trainer, crew procedure building and some smaller items.

Picture, pilots under instruction.

The entrance to the site.

Sergeants mess for 430men, TB - 5947/40.

Kitchen end with the water storage tower.

Gymnasium & surrounding buildings.

Gymnasium building is in the centre with the original large air vents on the roof. There seems to be several buildings attached on both ends that may or may not be part of the gym. Probably a TB - 16428/40.

Gymnasium & surrounding buildings.

Un known type of building.

Now over in the far corner.

The green shed looks a modern add-on. Airman's ablutions showers & changing rooms - TB - 7059/41.

Stanton air-raid shelter still with most of its earth cover removed, this Stanton shelter looks in very good condition.

This end is the entrance and the other end , the escape.

Air-raid shelters.

There are several blast shelters around this corner, in fact five in the main picture.

Type 2360/41 shelter.

Institute/NAAFI.

These huts could be the Institute or better known as the Navy Army Air Force Institute for 164 Corporals?

Institute/NAAFI.

These huts could be the Institute or better known as the Navy Army Air force Institute for 164 Corporals?

Institute/NAAFI.

Barrack hut?

This could be the barracks for the Institute staff.

Officers Mess?

We are now heading out to the entrance & main road and this hut, the officers mess for 168. This picture was taken a fortnight later than the rest and the owners have just started to dismantle the water towers.

Officers Mess.

Heating chimney and water tower for the Officers Mess.

Officers Mess.

The last picture of the Officers mess huts from the main road made of temporary brick.

Officers Quarters.

This could be set of three (senior) officers private quarters?.

Airman's Dining Room for 1300 men TB - 8221/40.

Note the side entrance and the small fireplace chimney on this wall.

Airman's Dining Room for 1300 men TB - 8221/40.

The centre section would have been the kitchens.

Moving on to the Instructional site.
The modern sewage site is probably on the site of the camps sewage site.

A triple AML bombing teacher.

Three attached units here and they have been converted into offices but now I am not sure about its future.

A twin turret trainer.

The original doors.

Railway track bed passing the site.

This is a plan of the railway junction where trains could come and go to all over the country. Today all gone. Weston-sub-Edge railway station. Acquired by the Great Western in 1883.