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RAF Grantham was opened in 1916. It was to play an important wartime training role. For the first eleven years it was known as RAF Spittlegate, was renamed RAF Grantham in 1928, and was renamed again in March 1944 as RAF Spitalgate. The Tiger Moth first went into service there in 1931, and the airfield then had a short spell as a 5 Group Bomber airfield before becoming the home of 12 Service Flying Training School in 1939. Its complement of 1000 personnel was quickly expanded following the outbreak of war, and eventually peaked in 1942 at around 2800, most of whom were accommodated in hastily erected Nissen huts. RAF training was to continue until 1975 when the airfield was handed over to the Army as a Royal Corps of Transport Territorial Army Depot. {4}{5}
RING DITCHES AND HORSE-SHOE SHAPED ENCLOSURES VISIBLE ON APS RECORDED ON SLAU CARDS. {1}{2}
THESE SUB-CIRCULAR AND PENANNULAR CROPMARKS HAVE ALSO BEEN INTERPRETED AS THE REMAINS OF PAST MILITARY ACTIVITY ON THE SITE. ARCHIVAL MATERIAL FROM THE 1940'S SHOW THAT THE SITE LAY ADJACENT TO A LARGE MILITARY AIRFIELD, AND WAS PROBABLY USED FOR THE DISPERSED STORAGE OF MUNITIONS. A MUNITIONS DISPERSAL STRUCTURE CONSISTING OF FOUR DISCREET BLAST-PROTECTED STORAGE AREAS WITHIN A DEFINED ENCLOSURE CAN CLEARLY BE SEEN, LYING ALONGSIDE AN AREA OF POSSIBLE NISSAN HUTS, VEHICLE TRACKS, SMALL BUILDINGS AND VARIOUS CRATERS AND AREAS OF BARE SOIL. {3} | Subjects: | General Archaeology Air Force | Temporal: | 1901 - 2050 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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Spitalgate airfield; aerial view perhaps…
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