Reports - Bury St Edmunds
RAF Shepherds Grove
Where? Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Photos 69. Comments 31. Posted 12 August 2006.
RAF Shepherds Grove is located on the outskirts of the sleepy Suffolk village of Stanton. It was built during WW2 as an airfield for bombers. During the Cold War in the 1950's the USAF took over and based jet fighters there. When the jet fighters left, part of the base was used as a launch site for Thor nuclear missles.
The site closed in 1966 and some of the base is now an industrial estate.
Rougham Airfield
Where? Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Photos 19. Comments 7. Posted 24 December 2006.
A few months ago I had a look around Rougham Hall. Whilst in the forest, we also saw some old WWII bomb stores. They weren't really very interesting - more like a little brick shed.
A lot of Rougham Airfield has been converted to an industrial estate. One of the hangars is now a warehouse. The control tower has been restored and is now a museum.
The interesting thing that remains is an underground battle HQ.
Rougham Hall
Where? Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Photos 44. Comments 38. Posted 19 September 2006.
I recently went for a nice relaxing Sunday afternoon explore with my mum and nan. They've lived in the area for years and guided me through a thick forest to see this place. We could've gone the easy way, but that passes the ground-keeper's house - that wouldn't have been fun 
The hall was owned by the Agnew family. I don't know much else, other than the army took it over during WW2 when they built an air base a short distance away which sealed the fate of the Hall. It was the victim of a stray German bomb intended for the base.
The apparently 2000lb bomb exploded (landed?) in the courtyard - this destroyed the foundations of the building. Chimneys fell through the rooves. Walls fell down. And the place was in ruins.
60 years later, nature is quickly taking over. Huge trees are growing in the middle of rooms. Ivy engulfing the walls. And so on...
