Just to get the ball rolling we did have up to recently a four wheel brockhouse ex raf trailer, also a couple of nissan huts, there must have been heaps and heaps of stuff sold off after the war, and with a huge demand, and the govt. with an export only policy, because the nation was so despartly short of money. My father who did national service said that their was vast parks of military vehicles he saw and had to use in norfolk.
anything from ww2 on the farm?
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renewablejohn
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- lancs
Quite a lot of tools hammers etc from WW2 plus a kitchen dining table.
- Location
- S E Glos
If this thread was a year or so older I'd suggest grain prices.
Pilgrimmick
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- Argyll
Various tools, axes, shovels etc. but that's just the new stuff, most is older!!!!
Got the old man!
Aside from that there is a quarry up the lane which the Yanks used for storing munitions etc. for training on the coast. Our little road bridge was widened to get it all through so it's pretty stone on one side and square concrete on the other with metal rails. Underneath you can see the width of the original bridge which to be fair, would be challenging for normal cars today.
Aside from that there is a quarry up the lane which the Yanks used for storing munitions etc. for training on the coast. Our little road bridge was widened to get it all through so it's pretty stone on one side and square concrete on the other with metal rails. Underneath you can see the width of the original bridge which to be fair, would be challenging for normal cars today.
TripleSix
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- Location
- Helmsley, North Yorkshire
Just along the lane is the remains of a camp in the woods and a tank cleaning area.
I did look up the history, the most I could find was a report of some soldiers being killed by a tree falling on their hut....
There was also a big army camp up at the park, which still has a lot of big concrete roads!
I did look up the history, the most I could find was a report of some soldiers being killed by a tree falling on their hut....
There was also a big army camp up at the park, which still has a lot of big concrete roads!
caveman
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- Location
- East Sussex.
Usually end up haying or silo in a field or two complete with pill boxes.
Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
remembe3r as a kid often going with dad to the local scrapyard for steel and such like to create trailers and the like. had endless fun poking about in the acres of ex military equipment, big guns radio parts of lorries planes ammunitions etc. We picked up some rockets ( which had been steamed empty ) cut them in half to make sheep troughs. I believe that Caterpillar had insisted that all the equipment sent over in lease lend was to be scrapped so it did not impinge on sales after the war. I believe one or two and a lot of other lend lease equipment somehow fell through the net and disappeared 
Goweresque
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- Location
- North Wilts
Got a pair of Spitfire wheels on an old bale elevator. Dad knew someone who worked in the Supermarine factory locally, and he got them for him to replace the elevator's original ones, which were a bit puny. Elevator is now rated to tow up to 100mph (spitfire landing speed)!
Also several of my hay trailers have floors made of timber from the folding doors on a WW2 vintage hanger on the nearby airfield, the hangers are still there but used for industrial uses, they replaced all the doors about 20 years ago with fixed sheeting, and let me have the old doors. The timber was in superb nick, really good quality pine. The weird thing was the doors were huge, about 30 feet long, but made in laminated fashion from planks - there were no large structural timbers in them at all, just all planks screwed together. The work that went into them was immense.
When they refurbed the hangers they also cleared some large heaps of soil that had always been next to them and uncovered this:
Air raid shelters for the aircrew to run into straight from the hanger. Reinforced concrete was proving a bit hard for the JCB demolishing them and I snapped these pics before they managed to finish them off.
Also several of my hay trailers have floors made of timber from the folding doors on a WW2 vintage hanger on the nearby airfield, the hangers are still there but used for industrial uses, they replaced all the doors about 20 years ago with fixed sheeting, and let me have the old doors. The timber was in superb nick, really good quality pine. The weird thing was the doors were huge, about 30 feet long, but made in laminated fashion from planks - there were no large structural timbers in them at all, just all planks screwed together. The work that went into them was immense.
When they refurbed the hangers they also cleared some large heaps of soil that had always been next to them and uncovered this:
Air raid shelters for the aircrew to run into straight from the hanger. Reinforced concrete was proving a bit hard for the JCB demolishing them and I snapped these pics before they managed to finish them off.
Ha,ha,I was going to say the old man.
Not a lot here apart from some old hand tools,an old hay rake under a bush in a hedge and odd bit of scrap metal.
- Location
- East yorks
Yes about an acre of concrete bases and tracks spread across 7 acres of grass what a pia
' Mainhill 'aircraft hanger (since scrapped)
Also anti aircraft battery ( underneath brambles )
Also anti aircraft battery ( underneath brambles )
crashed spitfire in a field that metal detector enthusiasts look for as its registered as a crash site, 3 bombs craters leading to a neighbouring manor house, a German bomber was being pursued and dumped its load hoping to strike the nearest worthy target, missed by 200 metres but I think the current residents of the house would call it 50 metres going by their objection of my planning app, based on their own measurements from their house to my site, I'm not bitter!
A few years ago a gentleman and his wife turned up,asking if they could look inside the old farmhouse(no one lives in it).It turns out he and his brother were sent here for safety during the war from one of the cities.He couldn't believe it ,the same wallpaper was still in the bedroom it has horses and carriages and how he used to count them .He told in great detail the night a bomber came down in nearby fields after failing to land at the airfield.We still have the old wash house,fire and coppers.
kfpben
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- Location
- Mid Hampshire
Two bomb craters from WW2. One of them is in our vines. When the German vineyard planting team complained about a very rough patch in the middle of the field dad suggested that they should 'talk to their grandfathers about that bit'.
Had a green goddess fire engine until last year. Not too sure on that one- could have been from the 1950s.
Had a green goddess fire engine until last year. Not too sure on that one- could have been from the 1950s.
dave6470
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- Location
- Coleraine Co.Londonderry NI
Grandmother she was nurse during the war does that count
Anti aircraft gun concrete bases just below soil level tried to dig them up a few years back but the top part about 12 feet circle was attached to a base about 3 feet down that spread out 4 feet further all round to a total of about 5-6 feet depth of concrete, bit too much for my 6 tonne digger.
Lazy Sod
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- Warminster Wiltshire
This is
the Morrison air raid shelter that was issued to my father during the war, with several bits that I added for various reasons. We used it as a workshop bench for many years until I sold it on Ebay to a military collector a few years ago, for £21.
TripleSix
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- Location
- Helmsley, North Yorkshire
The farm where I work is pressed up against the fence of an RAF base.
The original farmhouse was a lot nearer the fence and a crippled bomber coming in one night took the roof off the house.
There was about 7 people asleep in the house but it hit the only unoccupied bedroom.
I'll see if I can find the link.
The original farmhouse was a lot nearer the fence and a crippled bomber coming in one night took the roof off the house.
There was about 7 people asleep in the house but it hit the only unoccupied bedroom.
I'll see if I can find the link.