RAF WINDRUSH / Training airfield during WW2

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5 Video Views·Oct 30, 2024
This morning I'm just going to go and have a look at another control tower,
I think it's RF Windrush. A bit chilly this morning but I don't know whether I'd actually
get to see it or not, I don't know, I haven't been up here before so I thought it's worth a little
look, see what it's like. I think it's in the middle of like a farmyard so I don't quite know
what to expect. I've looked at a few pictures online but we'll see, see when we get there.
There's quite a few of these old aerodromes around here, I imagine they had to make loads of them
for during the war, World War Two. Anyway we'll see what we see. There's a few of these old
buildings died about so I imagine that's where I've just come from. I don't know whether I was
supposed to walk up there or where, I don't know. I've walked up this field, there's the post,
now, oh hello, um now I guess I had to, I think you can kind of make out a footpath,
I don't really know, but you see my sort of dilemma here. That's where we're heading, we're heading
just there. I'm hoping, I'm hoping there's no one about. I think I might try and walk back a
different way because this is, I think I'm more worried about stepping on any skylark nests or
see how about, but this is technically the brighter way, not that you can actually see
where it is. So far I can't see anyone, maybe the skylarks nests have fledged anyway, I don't know,
I'm not gonna be standing on anything. I think I may as well have just walked directly,
try not to get told off if there is anyone about. Red kite, big one. So there's actually a landing
strip still here, I don't think it's one of the, is it one of the originals? I don't know,
they just kept it going. I think what we're walking over now is actually a landing strip,
which feels a bit weird. I'm gonna be overly dramatic and it feels like you're walking into
a horror film. That car has been used for a while. What on earth was that? Something just
leapt off there, it may have been a squirrel, I don't know. At least the windows are in this one,
that's pretty cool. I do like that. The other one is ruined but this one actually looks
fairly well intact. That looks like an old pillbox, a big one. That is so cool,
that's crazy. So these would have been all the original sheds, obviously the one to the right
of the screen if you can't see, but yeah these are all original sheds, that's crazy.
I guess if it wasn't a farm none of these would even be here now anyway.
So that was RAF Windrush and what is left of.
I'll see if I can go back a quicker way, go home and get some breakfast.
Yeah it's interesting, it's worth doing. I think that is actually a runway,
I don't know whether it ever gets used or not, I do not know. Maybe they've got a little plane
in one of the sheds or something. There's one over by Stangeville, there's a farm there,
they do fly planes. At least that one's got windows. It almost looks like it was a cafe or
someone's been using it for living or I don't know. Yeah well we've made it this far,
thanks for watching, hopefully see you in the next one.
