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Report - RAF Folkingham - Aug 17

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Bikin Glynn

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Opened in 1940, it was used by both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces. During the war it was used primarily as a troop carrier airfield for airborne units and as a subsidiary training depot of the newly formed Royal Air Force Regiment. After the war it was placed on care and maintenance during 1947 when the RAF Regiment relocated to RAF Catterick

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During the late 1950s and early 1960s, the RAF Bomber Command used Folkingham as a PGM-17 Thor Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) base.
Today the remains of the airfield are located on private property being used as agricultural fields, with the main north-south runway acting as hardstanding for hundreds of scrapped vehicles... & lets face it thats why we are here.

Confession time, Iv visited here 4 times & have lost a lot of photos from here so this is all I can find. One of my visits was also what I did for a special birthday but Ill leave u to speculate on what age that was ;-)

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I should also mention that there is something weird going on here, every time Iv visited someone has turned up. Coincidence? maybe but they seemed to know I was there every time but I always managed to elude them regardless. So this is all the pics I have got Im afraid but there is some extraordinary stuff here.

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mookster

grumpy sod
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Nothing 'funny' going on there at all - it's an active plant machinery breakers business on the airfield, they also, I believe, have various trail cams set up around the site to monitor it due to people stealing or breaking things. The owners can be quite hostile to trespassers if caught.
 

Bikin Glynn

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Nothing 'funny' going on there at all - it's an active plant machinery breakers business on the airfield, they also, I believe, have various trail cams set up around the site to monitor it due to people stealing or breaking things. The owners can be quite hostile to trespassers if caught.

That's what I mean though it seems unlikely when u r there but I'm sure they have cams or motion sensors tucked in amongst stuff as they have always turned up in a car or a van but it's incredibly easy to hide amongst the plant.
I'm not sure it's "active", other than being in amongst worked farmland is it? In the 4 visits over 4 yrs I think the only change iv seen is some of the 20yd skips have vanished.
They should of waited though the price of steel is currently going through the roof
 

Down and beyond

The true source of englands wealth is coal
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Brilliant photos love a big pile of rust ! , picture two looks like a amphibious landing craft as such I bet that’s worth a ton of money !!

really enjoyed that
 

Bikin Glynn

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@westernsultan the crane I think I have seen similar at rushden railway museum? Apologies Glynn but I must no it’s bugging me lol :D

There was a Jones crane there too, identical to the one I was still using at work at time of my first visit (is one by road at Oundle marina the same) Nightmare finding parts for em too, we used to have no end of stuff custom made at great expense
 
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