This may not be the largest location I’ve featured, but I still found it interesting. It’s the old Direction Finding Station for the nearby RAF Warboys base (now mainly industrial units).
And that is about all I know about this location (heck, I’m not even sure that that’s correct). If anyone has any further information about, please get in touch. Thanks!
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The building is strange. It is located in the corner of a huge grassy compound surrounded by huge conifers. I’m not good with conversions, but the compound is about 200x200metres. You can view it on an aerial photo (the four circles are trees).
Inside
Entering through the huge blast doors is surprising – you expect to be in the building, but this is not so. There is a huge enclosed passageway surrounding the main building – presumably further protection against any bomb blasts.
Further inside
Once inside, there is very little to see. Any clues as to what this building was for have long gone. One room was obviously a plant room for boilers/air-con etc. One a store room of some sort. And one huge room. There were also some obligatory smashed up toilets (unphotoed).
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Hi i went to visit this site and found it very interesting having done abit of research and working on an RAF site i think RAF Warboys was a bommer command site hence the Raf stations name (warboys) the bulding listed above is certainly to be a comms building as there are many deep channels in the building for power cables and comms cables which leave the building
Alex; not too sure about RAF Warboys being named because of it being a bomber command station. I would think it is due to it’s location near Warboys village. The village has the enviable history of being the location that the last recorded witches were hung after a trial in Huntingdon; that was in 1593 and the church of Warboys is 13th Century, therefore the name Warboys very much pre-dates the RAF.
We moved to warboys in 1978, at the time the control tower was still standing (now the industrial estate) . I seem to recall there was a presavation order on it but it got knocked down on the sly. The runways are still there…. just and the big target practice wall is still standing.It was used as a satellite base for raf wyton and they flew wellington bombers from there in ww2. if i am correct there is still an old corragated steel aircraft hanger on the ind estate and definetly some old concrete brick airfield buildings on the perimeter. as far as i know still pretty much un-vandalised
Hi i was a ground wireless mechanic stationed at raf wyton in 1963/64 and worked in the above building at warboys. It was used at that time to hold the transmitters for raf wyton and also held hi power rf transmitters for raf mildenhall. as far as I can rememember it closed down around 1966 rgds ken
I ‘worked’ at Warboys Transmitters in 1959/60. We didn’t do too much work as there was a civilian wireless fitter and Ernie, the civilian cleaner.
Our sergeant ran a tv repair business, another airman was converting a bus into a camper and yet another learning to play the saxophone.
Happy days!
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I was stationed at the transmitter site as a junior technician for approximately 3-months in 1966 before being posted to Malta. We lived at the caravan site in Oldhurst. I remember that a Sergeant was in charge but a civilian serviced ‘his’ transmitters and would’nt let us RAF types touch them. We used to get some very large mushrooms from around the aerials.
My father flew in “lanks” as a flight engineer and often
talked of Warboys.
It is the village name that gives it (The Station) it’s name.
P.S. Re. the hanging of witches. (Second entry).
Surley it is “unenviable”, no “enviable” !
Sorry to be pedantic.
could it have been a radar station, judging by the picture.
poss. a type 80 ?