JH/POL/LOC/42 - [Air Minstry airfields and buildings]

JH/POL/LOC/42

File

[Air Minstry airfields and buildings]

1955-1956

71 items Mixed

United Kingdom. Air Ministry

Contains correspondence relating to the use of temporary buildings, and the purchase and sale of land for RAF stations. Issues include the Air Ministry's request to extend the Tibenham airfield in order for the runway to accommodate the latest aircraft, and correspondence is included between JH, the NFU and the CLA.; the Air Ministry's proposals for acquiring Wayland Wood (near Watton) as one of a ring of five sites to be utilised by Bomber Command when Watton RAF station was handed over to them in 1956 [by 7/56, they found another site and Wayland Wood was no longer needed]; requests for the dilapidated buildings at RAF Watton to be removed [the Air Ministry responded and issued tenders for their sale and demolition]; requests by RAF staff to keep temporary huts for storage near their caravan site on Air Ministry land near Griston; requests by the owners of Tubgate Farm, Blyford, for the Air Ministry to de-requisition outbuildings on the outskirts of this farm [the buildings were once used for the storage of explosives]; and a request from Depwade Rural District Council to buy a small piece of land on the edge of RAF Pulham so that they could develop the waterworks at Rushall [the Air Ministry agreed to sell this land to the Council in 11/55].

See also [JH/POL/LOC/5 and JH/POL/LOC/24] for files on the closure of RAF airbases.