2019

TL4546 : Buildings 9 and 288, Duxford Airfield domestic site - airmen's barracks and Sergeants’ Mess

taken 4 years ago, near to Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England

Buildings 9 and 288, Duxford Airfield domestic site - airmen's barracks and Sergeants’ Mess
Buildings 9 and 288, Duxford Airfield domestic site - airmen's barracks and Sergeants’ Mess
Building 9 is one of four identical buildings built in 1933 as airmen's barracks. The four buildings are together grade II listed - see LinkExternal link.

On the right is the rear of the Building 288, the Sergeants’ Mess, the part visible being a 1943 extension. For a photo of the front of the building, see TL4546 : Building 288, Duxford Airfield domestic site - Sergeants’ Mess.

In the foreground is the former parade ground.
Duxford Airfield domestic site

Otherwise known as North Camp, the domestic site at Duxford Airfield is an area north of the A505 originally developed in the First World War to provide barracks, married quarters and mess facilities for personnel working on the technical site of the airfield, south of the road. The area was modernised in the 1930s, with a number of buildings having a date plaque of 1933.

Following the purchase of the airfield in 1977 by the Imperial War Museum in conjunction with Cambridgeshire County Council and the Duxford Aviation Society, the area gained a new lease of life, with many of the buildings being used for storage and conservation work for the IWM's collection. In 2019 this was added to by the opening of a specialist paper storage building, the IWM Paper Store. In 2016 the Officer's Mess was refurbished and opened as a business centre containing a number of offices and a café.

The whole area forms part of the Duxford Airfield Conservation Area - see LinkExternal link


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TL4546, 201 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Ian Capper   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Friday, 25 October, 2019   (more nearby)
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Monday, 28 October, 2019
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OSGB36: geotagged! TL 458 462 [100m precision]
WGS84: 52:5.7221N 0:7.6233E
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OSGB36: geotagged! TL 457 462
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