Twin Bases - RAF Bentwaters, RAF Woodbridge


1953-54 RAF Bentwaters - Photographs and captions by Don Loving

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Orderly Room at Bentwaters, 1953.
1. Orderly Room at Bentwaters, 1953.

 

NCO Housing. A family of townies named Heir. This was our quonset hut. Note the blackout paint.
2. NCO Housing. A family of townies named Heir. This was our quonset hut. Note the blackout paint.

 

Wimpole Park in 1954, near Bentwaters.
3. Wimpole Park in 1954, near Bentwaters.

[Not very near Bentwaters, as it's in Cambridgeshire; but here is an interesting link - Linn Barringer]

 

Downtown Ipswich. Nearest town of any size is Ipswich. This was it in 1954.
4. Downtown Ipswich. Nearest town of any size is Ipswich. This was it in 1954.

 

NCO Housing Bentwaters 1953.39 views. Each family got a quonset hut and part of the interconnecting building, I believe. Darn cold. Car is 1953+/- British Ford.
5. NCO Housing Bentwaters 1953.39 views. Each family got a quonset hut and part of the interconnecting building, I believe. Darn cold. Car is 1953+/- British Ford.

[Yes, it's probably Ford Popular or Anglia and it's colour is Channel Green (as in English Channel) - my grandfather had one of the first in that colour, one of the first that wasn't black! - Linn Barringer) ]

 

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