Drive along the M56 past Stanlow oil refinery and you can’t help but notice a few red brick structures in the fields.
They look like typically dull WW2 storage sheds, and this is exactly what they are.
Info summarised from https://web.archive.org/web/2012030...php?3990-ROF-Storage-Depot-Dunham-on-the-Hill
This place was built in 1941 for storage and distribution of explosives, and consists of 28 sheds, together with a number of smaller buildings (sentry posts and latrines).
The sheds were connected by tracks to the nearby railway at Dunham-on-the-Hill station, now demolished. Some of them still have blast walls and earth embankments, and remnants of the tracks can be seen in various places.
After the war the site was used as a food store by the MAFF until 1985 before being sold in 1990.
The buildings are now spread out across several farms and some are still in use as animal shelters or for storing machinery and hay.
A map from the link above together with the current satellite view.
Only a few of the original wooden doors left.
Several sentry boxes.
Some latrines.
Not reported before probably because nobody has bothered; nevertheless a pleasant walk looking at flora, fauna, and sheds.
They look like typically dull WW2 storage sheds, and this is exactly what they are.
Info summarised from https://web.archive.org/web/2012030...php?3990-ROF-Storage-Depot-Dunham-on-the-Hill
This place was built in 1941 for storage and distribution of explosives, and consists of 28 sheds, together with a number of smaller buildings (sentry posts and latrines).
The sheds were connected by tracks to the nearby railway at Dunham-on-the-Hill station, now demolished. Some of them still have blast walls and earth embankments, and remnants of the tracks can be seen in various places.
After the war the site was used as a food store by the MAFF until 1985 before being sold in 1990.
The buildings are now spread out across several farms and some are still in use as animal shelters or for storing machinery and hay.
A map from the link above together with the current satellite view.
Only a few of the original wooden doors left.
Several sentry boxes.
Some latrines.
Not reported before probably because nobody has bothered; nevertheless a pleasant walk looking at flora, fauna, and sheds.
