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Ride out today

Posted by Greeves Rider <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Greeves+Rider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 19, 2023, 6:30 pm

Had a ride out this afternoon on the Greeves. Stopped to take this pic at Little Walden (Hadstock) airfield (Station 165) used by USAF 8th Airforce in WW2 in use from 1944 till 1946 sold off for farm land in 1958. All that remains now are a couple of T2 hangers one converted to a grain store the other used for warehousing, plus some huts converted to industrial uses and the control tower used a private dwelling.

Re: Ride out today

Posted by Andy C <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Andy+C' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 19, 2023, 6:40 pm, in reply to "Ride out today"

What great place for a private dwelling - steeped in history.

There is an old railway platform / ticket office on what the Somerset and Dorset Railway that is now a private dwelling.

Nice picture by the way.

Just back from a few miles on the DT400, very happy with it.

Who needs a signature anyway......

Re: Ride out today

Posted by Lannis <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Lannis' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 19, 2023, 10:12 pm, in reply to "Ride out today"

That Greeves looks just the thing for some exploration of the countryside. You never know what sort of historical things you might see out there ...

Lannis

At no time in history have the people forcing other people into compliance been the good guys.

Re: Ride out today

Posted by Leon Novello <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Leon+Novello' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 20, 2023, 1:40 am, in reply to "Ride out today"

A nice picture, and decent handlebars. Not ever having stayed behind a barbed wire fence, it seems to me that it is facing the wrong way (to keep people in, instead of out). Maybe I`m wrong, I was wrong once before in 1947.

Leon Novello

Re: Ride out today

Posted by Greeves Rider <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Greeves+Rider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 20, 2023, 12:04 pm, in reply to "Re: Ride out today"

The base saw quite a bit of action over is short 2 year use by the USAF, quite a few crashes, see https://aviationtrails.wordpress.com/2019/04/13/raf-little-walden-station-165/ and archive pics here https://www.americanairmuseum.com/archive/place/little-walden

Re: Ride out today

Posted by JERRY <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=JERRY' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 20, 2023, 10:57 am, in reply to "Ride out today"

How cool to live in a wartime control tower. Love the bike takes me back to Happy Daze.

The oldest rocker in town!

Re: Ride out today

Posted by jimmy <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=jimmy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 20, 2023, 11:40 am, in reply to "Re: Ride out today"

Great photo. Thanks for sharing

Re: Ride out today

Posted by Tonupdave <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Tonupdave' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 20, 2023, 12:08 pm, in reply to "Re: Ride out today"

Up until recently Exeter Airport had the circular tarmac pad and blast walls frying pans for the Spitfires that were based there during the war .I think only one left for use by the Airport Fire brigade for aircraft fires..shame really as the original hangers and workshops were ther now demolished..

Tonupdave..T.U.D.

Re: Ride out today

Posted by CrazyFrog <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=CrazyFrog' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 20, 2023, 6:52 pm, in reply to "Ride out today"

Nice piccie!

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