Reports - Navy - Urban Exploration
Reports - Navy
HMS Ganges
Where? Shotley, Suffolk. Comments 246. Posted 1 November 2006.
HMS Ganges is situated on the Shotley Peninsula in Suffolk. It used to be a training camp for the Navy until 1976, and in later years it was a police training school. It closed in 1998 or something.
At the start of 2006 the site was subject to a controversial planning war - some developers want to build a ton of homes etc on the site, but locals don't want that. In July 2006 the Secretary of State intervened and rejected all plans!
HMS Osprey / RNAS Portland
Where? Portland, Dorset. Comments 7. Posted 30 April 2009.
HMS Osprey was one of the Navy's helicopter airfields. It closed in 1999. Most of the base has been demolished. An HM Coastguard heliport remains, as does the old main building. This contained the control tower, operations room, met office and communications centre. There are plans to turn this building into a hotel.
HMS Royal Arthur
Where? Corsham, Wiltshire. Comments 19. Posted 18 December 2008.
HMS Royal Arthur was one of the Royal Navy's shore establishments - similar to HMS Ganges but on a smaller scale. The site at Corsham opened in 1947 after moving from Skegness (the Butlins holiday camp was used during WW2). The Corsham site finally closed in 1993...
A few years ago there was "news" that the site would be converted into retirement homes - nothing seems to have happened with that plan though. Nowadays it sits empty, and seems to be a practice ground for Bristol/Bath's graffiti artists.
I didn't get many photos of the buildings, maybe I'll revisit in the future...
