I went to visit a mate who lives in Nowheresville, Lincolnshire, and on the way back, stopped off to see this place.
Kiesby Wood/RAF Folkingham is a former World War II Royal Air Force flying station in Lincolnshire. Opened in 1940, it was used by both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Force. 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.
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 it is a graveyard for hundreds of tractors, JCBs, trucks, cranes, bulldozers, fire engines, oil tankers & agricultural machinery. All just left to rust on the old runways.
Visited on my own, on a fine spring day.
thanks for looking!
Kiesby Wood/RAF Folkingham is a former World War II Royal Air Force flying station in Lincolnshire. Opened in 1940, it was used by both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Force. 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.
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 it is a graveyard for hundreds of tractors, JCBs, trucks, cranes, bulldozers, fire engines, oil tankers & agricultural machinery. All just left to rust on the old runways.
Visited on my own, on a fine spring day.
thanks for looking!