WW2 Decoy sites

Myself and a fellow ARG member, Milan, visited several airfield sites in Norfolk and came acros one particular Q-site, (sadly i cannot remember its location), but several photographs were taken.
Also along our tour we came across an aviaition museum sporting this little 'gem' as well as a series of photographs and a writen description of its use ...

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If I can get this link to work, it should be
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if it don't work, at least you have a grid ref to go on! Explorers: once you know where it is, it's easy to park on the road verge and get to it without wandering across neighbouring fields like we did.
Excellent mini display of local decoy history at the Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum, Flixton.
BTW readers, Ian isn't a tranny (well, not as far as I know, anyway) Abel Mabel has a 100sqn link!

Bulphan decoy site, sitting just east of laindon in essex this was the decoy site for RAF hornchurch.

Both bunkers remain, one above ground and one below, these were parcticaly indentical to the ones at Nazeing, unfortunately access to the interior of both biulding was impossible, the above ground biulding is being used by the model flying club wich use the land and is locked tight and the underground biulding is flooded and full of rubbish.

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Hi,
Is this a Starfish Decoy Control Bunker or a WW2 Royal Observer Corps Observation Post please?

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Its in Market Deeping next to the ROC Post 52.660140 -0.313419

norwichpaul;49936 wrote:

Definately a Starfish control bunker

Thanks, any idea where for? Would it be Wittering? That seems quite a long way from here though.

At a talk about Decoy sites at Martlesham the speaker mentioned Honington. It was a decoy site untill Lord Haw Haw announced one night "we know about Honington being a decoy site ". It was then made into a proper site and left alone by the Germans.

It is briefed Lakenheath that the base was a decoy for Mildenhall untill they decided to open it was a base.

Hal_Chase;49937 wrote:

Would it be Wittering?

Dobinson states Wittering had two decoys: The first is your site, regarding the second I wonder if the residents of Peterborough know they were potential bomb fodder.

Edit - I take that remark back, as a glance at the 1940 map reveals very open countryside, though it does show what we are doing to this country, as only this week plans have been announced to (hopefully!) demolish the bowling and tennis club buildings on common land adjacent to my area to build yet another housing development.

Graham

Don't know about that bunker being a decoy; there's an identical one near Dunfermline town centre.
That's listed as an ARP Control/reporting centre, I think.