RAF Bungay, known locally as RAF Flixton is a former Royal Airforce station which was constructed in 1942 by a company called Kirk & Kirk Ltd. It was then allocated to the US army airforce and was in use from October 1942 until May 1955, being used in December 1942 by RAF Hardwick, who were sent there to prepare for special intruder operations. In 1946, it was returned to RAF control and was eventually put up for sale and disposed of in 1962, allegedly then being in minor use until 1980. Since then, most of the buildings have been demolished and the airfield has returned to agricultural use, being home to the 2 Sisters Flixton as well as a mushroom farm.
The site, in general is quite easy to get into however of course, @ollie_wren and I made it much more complicated for ourselves and turned it into a 15 minute hike across some fields but we did get there in the end.
The site itself is pretty big but we found that a lot of the buildings were sealed shut and being used for storage and the open ones were pretty much empty, stripped and there was not really anything too interesting left to see. We also found, after being spooked by some cats, that two of the buildings were filled with food bowls, water bowls and cat beds which seemed really dodgy however I stumbled upon a facebook post recently (will show a screenshot below), explaining that there were 40 feral cats on site which were being taken care of by a woman, which was quite an odd thing to find out. The post also stated that the USAAF Heritage are planning on rebuilding and restoring the site, so I think it’ll be quite interesting to see how that goes.
First view of the site.
Some old carnival/ fete rides, found them quite eerie.
This room was also being used for storage, assuming it's owned by the factory as it had their name on a lot of the things there.
Such a pretty fireplace.
I love how the vines look.
Lots of stuff being stored.
More stuff being stored/ discarded from the fete.
The cat beds and bowls. The room that the beds were in were locked, with cat sized cut outs in the door.
The facebook post for anyone that was wondering.
Thank you for reading!
The site, in general is quite easy to get into however of course, @ollie_wren and I made it much more complicated for ourselves and turned it into a 15 minute hike across some fields but we did get there in the end.
The site itself is pretty big but we found that a lot of the buildings were sealed shut and being used for storage and the open ones were pretty much empty, stripped and there was not really anything too interesting left to see. We also found, after being spooked by some cats, that two of the buildings were filled with food bowls, water bowls and cat beds which seemed really dodgy however I stumbled upon a facebook post recently (will show a screenshot below), explaining that there were 40 feral cats on site which were being taken care of by a woman, which was quite an odd thing to find out. The post also stated that the USAAF Heritage are planning on rebuilding and restoring the site, so I think it’ll be quite interesting to see how that goes.
First view of the site.
Some old carnival/ fete rides, found them quite eerie.
This room was also being used for storage, assuming it's owned by the factory as it had their name on a lot of the things there.
Such a pretty fireplace.
I love how the vines look.
Lots of stuff being stored.
More stuff being stored/ discarded from the fete.
The cat beds and bowls. The room that the beds were in were locked, with cat sized cut outs in the door.
The facebook post for anyone that was wondering.
Thank you for reading!
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