Polebrook is a village in Northamptonshire, England. The population at the 2011 census was 478. Continue reading... From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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1. RAF Polebrook War MemorialPolebrook Royal Air Force Station Polebrook or more simply RAF Polebrook is a former Royal Air Force station located 3.5 miles east-south-east of Oundle, at Polebrook, Northamptonshire, England. The airfield was built on Rothschild estate land starting in August 1940. It was from Polebrook that the United States Army Air Forces' Eighth Air Force carried out its first heavy bomb group combat mission on 17 August 1942, and from which Major Clark Gable flew combat missions in 1943. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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one of their kind the RAF “Class A” British airstrips
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WE FOUND AN INTACT RAF BATTLE BUNKER IN A RANDOM FIELD!
RAF Market Harborough/Lubenham or 113 storage sub site was first opened on 1st June 1943 and housed everything from 61 vickers wellington bombers, as10 oxfords, Hawker Hurricanes and Curtiss Tomohawk aircrafts. home to the no14 OTU (operational training unit) one of the first bomber training units to be disbanded the runway by the end of world war 2 on the 18th of august 1945 closed and the base became care and maintenance only until the army took over the site in 1948 for there 72 BVD (Brigade vehicle depot). after some time the base was took over by the local government and the national assistance board in order to house displaced polish families up until 1958 were plans for a new prison HMP Gartree was formed. The base was demolished and adaptation for the prison which opened in 1965. Today only this Pill box battle HQ some bush line rubbles and parts of old runway abandoned in the fields behind the prison remain of the former airfield base.
The rest of the land has had various planning ideas over the years from 1990 after Market Harborough's cattle market closed its doors including plans to develop offices, an agricultural show-ground and other leisure uses which gained outline planning permission. Plans for a christian theme park also surfaced for the site in the mid to late 1990s but never gained much support. the theme park would have been completed with a Garden of eden experience. ten years later planning permission was granted for a business and office park in Feb 2007 known today as airfield business park.
This pillbox Battle head quarters is a type 11001/41 bunker with a Pole-brook style roof consisting of a main office, RBX room, messenger room, toilet and watch tower. this type of bunker would have been used to defend the airfield in case of land invasion.