I lived there as a small boy from 1959 to 1962, in a caravan on that windy airfield along with perhaps 50 other caravans housing the familes of airmen. I remember those Thor missiles standing tall against the sky & blowing off liquid oxygen as they were fuelled ready for launch. My father had been on Christmas Island for the hydrogen bomb tests & he kept photos of the mushroom cloud which he would show me if I climbed on his knee. He explained to me that there was a horrible country called Russia that wanted to kill us all and we needed all these missiles to protect ourselves from them. Just recently there had been a huge war started by a horrible country called Germany who also wanted to kill everyone and they had sent huge planes to bomb everyone in the country. Evidence of this bombing was plain to see everywhere in ruined buildings. I was 4 years old & a very sharp child. I understood that the world was a nasty dangerous place; later years living on a Vulcan bomber base (RAF Cottesmore, nearby) and eventually as a young man working for the MoD on warship missile systems in the 70s did nothing to change that view. My daughters know nothing of this & care less. Their world has so far been about having fun & enjoying a carefree life of ever increasing prosperity. However, I can't help feeling that the beast of war is slowly waking up again among nations and that the long cycle of benign history is now behind us. It will be big shock for the younger generation & I hope it doesn't happen but the omens are not good.
thank you for your comment, even walking around the derelict sites it is sobering to know why it was built in the first place. I also hope the future doesn't go the way it seems to be heading.
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The wheeled armoured vehicle looks like a Tactica EOD vehicle. They used to knock about Belfast quite a lot back in the day!
I went to the one down the road at RAF Harrington a few weeks ago, such awesome sites
I'll have to pin that one for a future visit
@@EastCoastSteam4468 if you pick the right day there's a museum there too 😀
This site had to be avoided by our sircraft due to paragliding activity thst day. One to be visited next year.
Please do, it's a public site so no issues wandering around
Thanks for your local advice
Couldn't believe the abandoned corroded radar scanner!
I lived there as a small boy from 1959 to 1962, in a caravan on that windy airfield along with perhaps 50 other caravans housing the familes of airmen. I remember those Thor missiles standing tall against the sky & blowing off liquid oxygen as they were fuelled ready for launch. My father had been on Christmas Island for the hydrogen bomb tests & he kept photos of the mushroom cloud which he would show me if I climbed on his knee. He explained to me that there was a horrible country called Russia that wanted to kill us all and we needed all these missiles to protect ourselves from them. Just recently there had been a huge war started by a horrible country called Germany who also wanted to kill everyone and they had sent huge planes to bomb everyone in the country. Evidence of this bombing was plain to see everywhere in ruined buildings. I was 4 years old & a very sharp child. I understood that the world was a nasty dangerous place; later years living on a Vulcan bomber base (RAF Cottesmore, nearby) and eventually as a young man working for the MoD on warship missile systems in the 70s did nothing to change that view.
My daughters know nothing of this & care less. Their world has so far been about having fun & enjoying a carefree life of ever increasing prosperity. However, I can't help feeling that the beast of war is slowly waking up again among nations and that the long cycle of benign history is now behind us. It will be big shock for the younger generation & I hope it doesn't happen but the omens are not good.
thank you for your comment, even walking around the derelict sites it is sobering to know why it was built in the first place. I also hope the future doesn't go the way it seems to be heading.