RAF Long Newnton Communal Site

Site No.4 is in the trees on the left, I believe there is very little to find. Sergeants, Officers and Airmen's quarters with Ablutions & Drying blocks, Picket Post, Prophylactic room and Latrines. The quarters were Laing huts, 'S' Seco hutting and all others were TB. There was also a ''Stent'' shelter (I have never heard of this type) and an EWS 15,000gal water tank in case of fire.
We go to the right.

View from the road.

TB = Temporary Brick.
S = Seco.
P = Permanent Brick.
N = Nissen.
A = Asbestos (Handcraft Hut).
R = Romney.
L = Laing.
J = Jane.

Plan Sick Quarters.
230 Picket Post TB 657/41.
302 Ambulance garage & Mortuary TB 660/42.*
303 Orderlies Quarters TB 2969/42.
304 Orderlies ablutions TB 9026/41.*
305 Air-Raid Shelter 'local design'.*
301 Sick Quarters Annex S 3938/42.
300 RAF & WAAF sick quarters S 3938/42.
S -Seco. TB Temporary Brick.

We revisited with the ARG 2026 and a lovely house has been built on the Sick Quarters and there is no access.
* - are the buildings still extant.
The Air-raid shelter is now a Bat home.

302 Ambulance garage & Mortuary TB 660/42.*

305 Air-Raid Shelter 'local design'.*

Orderlies Latrines TB 9026/41 in the distance.

Just a short walk to the WAAF site.

This site was completely for the WAAF's with a Picket Post to book them in and out, Fuel Compound for coal/coke, seven barracks for Sergeants & Women, Officers mess and quarters. Two TB huts one for Ablutions and decontamination. The other Ablutions, Latrines, Laundry and Hairdressers shop.

310 Handcraft hut Officers Mess & Quarters A 3094/42.

This double hut is for only four WAAF Officers. This is where they would live and rest.

310 Handcraft hut Officers Mess & Quarters A 3094/42.

A = Asbestos (Handcraft).

310 Handcraft hut Officers Mess & Quarters A 3094/42.

The join in the middle of the two huts.

310 Handcraft hut Officers Mess & Quarters A 3094/42.

Toilet & wash room.

310 Handcraft hut Officers Mess & Quarters A 3094/42.

Another toilet on this end.

310 Handcraft hut Officers Mess & Quarters A 3094/42.

The electrics still in place.

310 Handcraft hut Officers Mess & Quarters A 3094/42.

Nice green and cream colour scheme.

310 Handcraft hut Officers Mess & Quarters A 3094/42.

Air vent.

323 Sergeants & Air women's Ablutions, Latrines and (Hairdressing shop) TB 3278/42.

Basically baths/showers, toilets and hairdressers.

323 Sergeants & Air women's Ablutions, Latrines and (Hairdressing shop) TB 3278/42.

The door in the wall is for animals when it was used by the farm.

323 Sergeants & Air women's Ablutions, Latrines and (Hairdressing shop) TB 3278/42.

Air vents on the roof.

323 Sergeants & Air women's Ablutions, Latrines and (Hairdressing shop) TB 3278/42.

Not sure what QRT 3 is ??

323 Sergeants & Air women's Ablutions, Latrines and (Hairdressing shop) TB 3278/42.

Boiler room.

Boiler room for hot water and heating. There would have been baths here as well.

323 Sergeants & Air women's Ablutions, Latrines and (Hairdressing shop) TB 3278/42.

This one is obvious.

323 Sergeants & Air women's Ablutions, Latrines and (Hairdressing shop) TB 3278/42.

Toilets.

323 Sergeants & Air women's Ablutions, Latrines and (Hairdressing shop) TB 3278/42.

Individual toilets with high level flushes.

323 Sergeants & Air women's Ablutions, Latrines and (Hairdressing shop) TB 3278/42.

Inside one of the toilets is a concrete sink base and two (light brown) sinks that would have sat on the top of the frame.

323 Sergeants & Air women's Ablutions, Latrines and (Hairdressing shop) TB 3278/42.

The centre of the block.

Quite a large building. As the war went on and there seemed to be no real threat of gas, the decontamination side of these building was run down and used as either stores or as extra ablutions.

325A & B Sergeants & Air woman's Barrack block [Type 23] S 3497/43. S = Seco.

326A,B,C,D & E five Air woman's Barrack huts [Type 23] S 3497/43.

Seco were a prefabricated building used a lot on later airfields and then to alleviate housing thousands were built all across the country for Councils.

Most have now gone.

 Air raid shelter.

102 Gas Decontamination Centre Type 'KM'. PB 13843/40.

No entry, closed off as a Bat haven. We did enter it in 2006 and I will be covering this separately.

104 Medical Inspection Hut TB 3627/41.

The entrance with a boot scraper to the right of the door. A must on muddy airfields.

104 Medical Inspection Hut TB 3627/41.

A long entrance.

104 Medical Inspection Hut TB 3627/41.

The entrance inside.

104 Medical Inspection Hut TB 3627/41.

There are two cupboard either side of this room, all original. Also the cream and green paint work.

111 Institute (51 Corporals , 344 Airmen) TB 660/41.

Entering one of the passages.

111 Institute (51 Corporals , 344 Airmen) TB 660/41.

Exiting one of the passages.

111 Institute (51 Corporals , 344 Airmen) TB 660/41.

One of the rooms.

111 Institute (51 Corporals , 344 Airmen) TB 660/41.

Door into the Games room.

111 Institute (51 Corporals , 344 Airmen) TB 660/41.

The cooker space.

111 Institute (51 Corporals , 344 Airmen) TB 660/41.
Chimney breast.

111 Institute (51 Corporals , 344 Airmen) TB 660/41.
One of the washing up sink.

111 Institute (51 Corporals , 344 Airmen) TB 660/41.

These huts like many more all across the country were used post war by squatters. Then the local councils took most over for council housing.

111 Institute (51 Corporals , 344 Airmen) TB 660/41.

These cookers could be the kitchens of people that lived here.

111 Institute (51 Corporals , 344 Airmen) TB 660/41.

Water tower above the kitchen this was standard practice in RAF wartime buildings.

111 Institute (51 Corporals , 344 Airmen) TB 660/41.

Chimney for the kitchens and a nice big air vent.

111 Institute (51 Corporals , 344 Airmen) TB 660/41.

Detritus of an old building.

109 Stand-By Set House PB 10883/41.

This could power the whole of the airfield site and communal sites if there was a mains power cut. Depending on the power needed there could be one to three motors and dynamos inside a Set House, here I have not looked inside but there may have only been one.

119 Sergeants Mess TB 655/41.

It is the red square on the plan?? this is all that is left

119 Sergeants Mess TB 655/41.

We have no idea what this building is, it may be the red square on the plan??

119 Sergeants Mess TB 655/41.
After the ARG walk in 2026, we were all very unsure what these two buildings are. One theory is they could be senior Officers living accommodation.