Volume: Various RAF airfield buildings, hangars and accommodation

Date:
1939 - 1945
Location:
Raf Carnaby Airfield, Carnaby, East Riding Of Yorkshire
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Raf Chedburgh Airfield, Depden, St. Edmundsbury, Suffolk
Raf East Kirkby, East Kirkby, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire
Raf Holmsley South Airfield, Burley, New Forest, Hampshire
Raf Isle Abbotts Airfield, Raf Merryfield Airfield, Rnas Merryfield, Hms Heron Ii, Ilton, South Somerset, Somerset
Raf Kirton In Lindsey Airfield, Kirton In Lindsey, North Lincolnshire
Reference:
JLP01/01/001
Type:
Volume containing Photographic material
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Description

Album of black and white prints labelled 'Aerodromes: Buildings, Hangars and Accommodation', showing unidentified RAF buildings constructed during the Second World War including interior view of parachute store and exterior views of fabric stores and station headquarters. Also included are images of airplanes on runway and aerial oblique and vertical photographs taken by Aero Pictorial Ltd of various RAF bases including Carnaby, Isle Abbotts (1941-1942), Chedburgh (1943) and Holmsley South, and images of excavation and construction of airfield at East Kirkby (1942) and geological survey of ground at Kirton in Lindsey.

This album and some of the images it contains was catalogued in 2013 as part of a pilot project funded by the John Laing Charitable Trust.

Content

This is part of the Series: JLP01/01 John Laing Photographic Collection Project Albums; within the Collection: JLP01 John Laing Photographic Collection

This Volume is divided into 5 Child Records
This Volume contains the following materials:
Photograph Album: 1

Rights

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Keywords

Second World War Military Airfield, Aerial View, Second World War