RAF Sculthorpe - Norfolk
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3:09 Looks like a receptacle to clear firearms with. Stick the muzzle of a rifle or pistol into
the hole and you can look up into the chamber of the firearm to verify it is clear of ammo and safe.
If a round were to go off,it would safely go into the cannister-which might be filled with sand or water.
You may have been in the armory of the police station where they store & issue weapons.
Explains the gate and the file cabinet marked “magazines”,as in rifle or pistol magazines.
Just about to comment the same thing
Ahhh thanks,very informative.something i didnt actually think about cheers
That's what I thought , it just seemed to be in an unusual place pointed up instead of down.
Yeap
Atheist Orphan Nope. Not those kind of mags,but wouldn’t surprise me if they had a couple of issues hidden away from the CO. LOL
Sculthorpe is still operational its used by special OPs based at RAF Mildenhall. 48th FW on one of the buildings is for 48th Fighter Wing based at RAF Lakenheath it used to be a detachment there when they had F111, they also used to be anther detachment for the 48th FW at RAF Honnington in Suffolk.
I've seen both CV-22 Osprey and larger USAF planes do take off and landing drills at Sculthorpe even to this day year (2024). I spoke to an ex-raf man and co-worker. Its not as common in recent years but Sculthorpe is still an MOD site and "operational" as you say, despite being abandoned. Landings are called in via 4x4 vehicles on the ground, no air control tower.
AUTOVON (standing for AUTOmatic VOice Network) was the switched voice communications system of the US military, now replaced by a digital system called DSN. The Autovon network covered all locations where US forces had a presence and there were a number of Autovon exchanges in Britain. This was an extremely high-security system, although through a loophole it was possible for a time to gain unauthorised access to Autovon from the normal public network (if you knew the dialling code!).
Autovon was notable for having four-wire (not two-wire) transmission (although a number of standard two-wire telephones were also connected). Telephones had four extra buttons on the right of the keypad, using the so-called A, B, C, D touch-tone (DTMF) frequencies to allow privileged users to set class of service for each call. These were "ROUTINE", "IMMEDIATE", "FLASH", and "FLASH OVERRIDE" priorities, with ROUTINE being the lowest and FLASH OVERRIDE the highest. To dial higher priority phone calls than routine, special authorisation was needed.
Each military installation had its own prefix for use in the Autovon and not all PABX extension telephones at military locations had the capability to call other military installations via Autovon. However, they could all receive Autovon calls coming from another installation apparently. Dialling codes and numbers were similar to the US civilian system but not the same; the last four digits were, however, always identical.
A detailed description of Autovon will be found in US MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS by Ricci and Schutzer (Computer Science Press, Inc, 1986).
comm1508 strowger pabx?
rickyreynolds17 PBX
Private branch exchange
I have a sign from that building, OFF LIMITS TO UNAUTHORISED PERSONNEL , taken in1978 RAF SCULTHORPE
Hi well I’m pleased to say that I was at the opening of the Heritage Centre and aria Schofield on the 5th of May 2024. It’s only small but my goodness does it give you an insight of what REF or as they would say AF Sculthorpe near Fakenham Norfolk was an is really about fantastic day if you get the chance, go and see it. It’s open on the first Sunday of every month between February and November.
I've been a few times and did some walking around the base parts your allowed near the heritage center hopefully next time I go I'll find the trumem building
You just saved me a tour. I doubt you'd get this sort of access officially.
Always awesome to see a new video from you. Keep up the great work. Your a warrior of history preservation.
The red cylinder in the MOD Police building,was a weapon clearing device,place the muzzle in it as you do you clear the weapon in case it goes off. By the looks of that room with the magazine drawer on the filing cabinet,I would say that was the armoury. Great vid as usual,keep them coming.
I was stationed at sculthorpe in 1972 -75 fire department 🚒.
Great times
Do you have any stories?
If I had the money, a lot of money, I would love to build a museum of Cold War era Command Posts/Bunkers from the 50's-90's. Reconstruct US/NATO and USSR/Warsaw Pact facilities with all the maps, teletype machines, phones, radios, etc.
Mmmm? This could become reality if you could meet someone w/ capital and a similar interest......There may be some museums too who would be interested.........???
Finding these videos amazing but also quite sad my father was stationed at Fakenham and Bircham Newton during late 50’s and early 60’s also other bases Kings Lynn Iand Middleton St. George (where I was born) I wish my father was alive today so many questions I would like to ask . As I was very young during this time there is not much I remember about staying at the RAF bases except for playing with the American kids and getting introduced to peanut butter and jam sandwiches 🥪😂👍🏻 We now live in Australia near the former RAAF Williams which has recently been made into a new housing Estate called Williams Landing.. so sad they lose all this ☹️
Room at 23:30 -- Quite possibly the shredder/pulverizer room for secure destruction of classified papers. Usually located in or near the command & Intel facilities, a high-sevurity room with heavy duty power & ventilation for the big shredder machine, which is bolted to the ground. Older facilities usually had an incinerator located outside but nearby.
Wow, just massive amounts of cables. Strange to think that was probably state of the art back in the day. Excellent explore!
@3.01 is a firearms discharge tube to pull trigger to ensure no live rounds left in the weapon before or after taking from storage, the first room withe the raised area would be be for prisoner booking in sergeant on raised platform and then the room behind with the with mesh on door and discharge tube would have been the armoury filing cabinet with magazines are not for Hell on earth magazines but ammunition.
A pneumatic tube! Used to send messages before the invention of modern means of communication. Love the room full of mechanical phone switches too!
Really decent explore this. The yankee bases are very nice to look at
3:49. BT Line amplifiers for private wires. Before the interweb :)
Thank you for the information:)
I like that MOD Police sign
The tube is called a vacuum travelater
They still use such a thing in my local supermarket...................
Ian I love hearing your research mate, brilliant vid as always!!!
24.05 was a IT network room, you can see where the racks where bolted to the floor.
standard BT telephone exchange. at 15:00. Stowger selectors. Use to wire thoe things back in the olden days.
Thanks for the information
Great video! The room with the "TEMPEST EARTH" and "NON-TEMPEST EARTH" and the obscured, barred window was probably the SCIF. There is probably electrical shielding (screens) in the walls.
Very amazing video well done and keep up the great work
interesting and great video as always :) not to mention that telephone exchange is a nice suprise
Love the videos!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
We are getting a few inches of snow this morning in Iowa. Great video saved for history.
Don’t want that here folk
At 22:30 ... Thats a TEMPEST aproved RF shielded room to prevent sensitive signals leaking. Its a "mind your own business room" 😉
Thanks for the information folk :)
14.10 Telecomm equipment. Strowger relays switch. Great stuff to work on.
To my adled brain it seems not long ago I used to see aircraft flying out of there. Such a shame to see everything trashed.
If it's where I think it is I used to deliver there, joint USAF/ RAF Base ?
15.48. selector relay's, as you dial a number (rotary dial) it would make a clicking noise & then a buzzing noise as the selector moved.
Loads of Golden gems Folk 👍
What was the red tube on the wall.i never seen that before
3.09. you were in the armoury of the mod police, the red item on the wall was for putting the muzzle of the weapon into to pull the trigger and release the firing pin, which you had activated by freeing the chamber and ensuring nothing "up the spout". If there was, the red jobbie would absorb the bullet. In my time most armouries had a small skylight, you aimed through that.
The filing cabinet was for pistol and rifle magazines, not reading material.
The intercom at 5:35 is actually a central heating thermometer/ controller, the give way is the name Xpelair
Another awesome video guys it's a shame why people insist in breaking windows it doesn't achieve anything its disrespects history!!!
I remember U2 spy planes and Bloodhound missiles being based there
Awesome video.
Yea red thing is for download weapons it were you stick the muzzle so if you have a miss fire it will catch the bullet
18.27 mains power for telephone exchange
6:56: That looks like a DB25 connection for a V24 serial terminal. These were usually used for VT100 compatible terminals connected to a mainframe computer.
@@zeberdee1972 I didn' really work in telecoms. That mainframe system that seems to have been in there was most likely not connected or even related to that vast telecom installation that is still in there. I am currently working in a building where these exact connectors were all over the place before we moved in. We had all of them removed and put in Ethernet cabling instead. I supervised that process and that's how I know. Still got some left over VT100 terminals. The mainframe room in the basement in my building still exists and some remains of a DEC mainframe system are still in there. Like a rack with a few 5.25" full height 1.9GB hard drives from 1993.
14.49 Doll's eye telephone exchange (manual operation)
Operator, dial 100 etc for outside line etc
Wow did you see "Exploring with fighters" vid of a untouched war bunker filled with everything..You guys need to get in there
How can I contact you for suggesting explores?
Am i the only one that thinks the patterns of runways and taxiways looks from above like a giant pair of underpants ? 🤣
Lol
Lol shower stall in-between two toilets spell hot steamy ....
Mindless vandalism, I doubt very much they ' Tag' their own abode. That would put me off even bothering to research any more because it's all been ruined by mindless idiots.
The mystery room with plinths is telecoms...en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)
Telephone exchange for UK military and judging from one of the rooms and labels on the exchange, into Autovon - US military phone network - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autovon
Ha! 25'40" vacuum spelt vacume 😆
Triple ceilings mean SCIF.
What would you have done if when Chris said hello, someone had have said hello back, meaning, the answer came from someone who was not from the land of the living....
morning my folk🤓
I find the cold war just as interesting as WW2. I believe that General Patton was right and he should have kept on going till he hit Moscow.there would have been no cold war.
I'm a Dovorian Next time hell on earth are down or you go to them please lot me know I would like to tag along
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Thanks for your support folk ;)
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Have you guys come across “exploring with fighters”? Just watched a vid of theirs and you can hear them using angle grinders to break in! Disgraceful behaviour, you guys explore with respect whilst others have absolutely none.
They are a bunch of clowns aren't they. Give explorers a bad image.
"Exploring With Fannies"
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