DBS
May 25th, 2006, 20:35
Not really much on the internet about this site...mainly because most google searches come up with RAF Brize Norton.
From what i can gather from local knowledge, RAF Norton was a balloon barrage site in WW2 (no idea what they did). It had a dummy hanger intended to draw bombs away from the steel factories making armaments.
After the war local reports talk of seeing planes in there, so i presume it was converted into a full airfield. No idea when it closed, but recently it's been used (as many airbases of this type seem to have) as a place where you can drive off road without a license, aswell as flying scool.
Access was easy, it's right on a main road about 5 miles from Sheffield City Centre. The inside has been gutted despite it being recently boarded up.
http://www.gmtt.co.uk/privdev/gm/rafnorton/DSC00859.JPG
Inside the hanger.
http://www.gmtt.co.uk/privdev/gm/rafnorton/DSC00861.JPG
Outside The Barracks
http://www.gmtt.co.uk/privdev/gm/rafnorton/DSC00863.JPG
Inside The Barracks
http://www.gmtt.co.uk/privdev/gm/rafnorton/DSC00865.JPG
This was used to monitor the gate on the way in, boarded up well except for one but breaking windows isn't my thing.
http://www.gmtt.co.uk/privdev/gm/rafnorton/DSC00871.JPG
Found this, the concrete has collapsed in....
http://www.gmtt.co.uk/privdev/gm/rafnorton/DSC00870.JPG
Revealing some underground 'shelters' though they could easily be collapsed foundations....though i can't see the logic behind having hollow foundations underneath an aerodrome? Well they're's about 5 of them, small holes in the wall link all 5. They go back about 10 metres, and are only a meter (ot so) high but that's because they're full of earth.
More images: http://www.gmtt.co.uk/privdev/gm/
From what i can gather from local knowledge, RAF Norton was a balloon barrage site in WW2 (no idea what they did). It had a dummy hanger intended to draw bombs away from the steel factories making armaments.
After the war local reports talk of seeing planes in there, so i presume it was converted into a full airfield. No idea when it closed, but recently it's been used (as many airbases of this type seem to have) as a place where you can drive off road without a license, aswell as flying scool.
Access was easy, it's right on a main road about 5 miles from Sheffield City Centre. The inside has been gutted despite it being recently boarded up.
http://www.gmtt.co.uk/privdev/gm/rafnorton/DSC00859.JPG
Inside the hanger.
http://www.gmtt.co.uk/privdev/gm/rafnorton/DSC00861.JPG
Outside The Barracks
http://www.gmtt.co.uk/privdev/gm/rafnorton/DSC00863.JPG
Inside The Barracks
http://www.gmtt.co.uk/privdev/gm/rafnorton/DSC00865.JPG
This was used to monitor the gate on the way in, boarded up well except for one but breaking windows isn't my thing.
http://www.gmtt.co.uk/privdev/gm/rafnorton/DSC00871.JPG
Found this, the concrete has collapsed in....
http://www.gmtt.co.uk/privdev/gm/rafnorton/DSC00870.JPG
Revealing some underground 'shelters' though they could easily be collapsed foundations....though i can't see the logic behind having hollow foundations underneath an aerodrome? Well they're's about 5 of them, small holes in the wall link all 5. They go back about 10 metres, and are only a meter (ot so) high but that's because they're full of earth.
More images: http://www.gmtt.co.uk/privdev/gm/