photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. Discover and use our high-quality applied research to support the protection and management of the historic environment. Hemswell was used as a substitute for RAF Scampton in the ground-based filming of the 1954 film The Dam Busters as the wartime layout of both Scampton and Hemswell was similar in many places. (B=0~o| 10thFeb 2023 - Please note we currently have a huge backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. For any other issue or if you need help, please email: Our website works best with the latest version of the browsers below, unfortunately your browser is not supported. I am currently living-in at a fast-jet station, and many of the junior aircrew not only wear flying suits in the mess, but don't bother to change after work - I suspect that they think (wrongly) that the females in the bar will be impressed. Find out about services offered by Historic England for funding, planning, education and research, as well as training and skill development. for 3 with gables. John Kenneth Hill 50th Squadron (d.17th April 1941), Sgt. Buildings Scheduled monuments Parks and gardens Battlefields Shipwrecks. 97 Sqn disbanded, with the personnel transferred to, No. 5 (Lincolnshire) Missile Dispersal Sites located at RAF Bardney, RAF Caistor, RAF Coleby Grange and RAF Ludford Magna. Timber It was used again by Bomber Command as a nuclear ballistic missile base during the Cold War and then closed to military use in 1967.[2]. © Crown Copyright and database right 2023. In 2000 The old RAF Officers Mess building (which had been used as a Category D prison wing) was converted into an Immigration Removal Centre. 5004 0000004392 00000 n Moved to Lindholme 1 April 1974. [6], In April 2012, the Immigration Removal Centre was closed and converted back to a Category D prison wing. LONDONTHORPE AND HARROWBY WITHOUT 223/0/10002 PRINCE WILLIAM OF GLOUCESTER BARRACKS [2] The site, which occupies 128 acres (52ha), re-opened as a prison in 1985. Paired stacks with arched links to hipped return elevations, and plain parallel range to rear of main block. 0000003365 00000 n INTERIOR: original joinery with panelled doors throughout. 0000012184 00000 n 607 0 obj <> endobj The film "Night Bombers" was shot at Hemswell during this period. Description of residential units All the crew were killed on their first ever mission. This copy shows the entry on 01-Mar-2023 at 18:30:29. This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. Lindholme. The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system. On the 8th August 1952, a Meteor MK 4 serial number RA 376, based at RAF Finningley, and was one of the aircraft used by 215 AFS (Advanced Flying School) has just taken off from the airfield for an exercise and duly crashed close to Firbeck Hall in Nottinghamshire approx 8 miles from the runway. 0000000696 00000 n [11], In August 2009 there was a large fire at one of the former RAF hangars that was being used as a plastics recycling site by AWS Eco-plastics. Recruit training continued from Hemswell but the station was eventually placed on "Care and Maintenance" in 1967, when it was decided that all future recruit training would be carried out at RAF Swinderby. No. A contractor cutting bricks for the wall of the partially-restored wild and natural walled garden at Warley Place, Brentwood. PLAN: rectangular main block with ground-floor mess rooms and rear dining room is attached by link corridors on each side to 'Y-plan' accommodation blocks. IRC Lindholme was previously RAF Lindholme's officers' mess. I would not like to offend my host's hospitality by trodding upon any of their traditions. Find out more about Heritage Apprenticeships. No. The station is now totally civilian, however, the RAF still own the community centre and have spent considerable money refurbishing it. It became the category D unit for HMP Lindholme, to which it is adjacent. The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority. 428 0 obj <> endobj Irregular composition in a mock Tudor manner. For over 40 years the Welbeck Estate Group have specialised in the purchase of entire MOD sites, either married quarter housing estates or airfields and those also in Lincolnshire at RAF Scampton. A contractor cutting bricks for the wall of the partially-restored wild and natural walled garden at Warley Place, Brentwood. Royce Parrish. 643 GS operated from Hemswell until 1974, giving ATC cadets air experience and glider pilot training until moving to RAF Lindholme on 1 April 1974. We are the largest and fastest growing community of UK forces veterans on the web with over 500,000 members! All rights reserved. No. Interior retains original entrance / staircase hall After a brief period as a bomber station it became a training station until its absorption as an operational and then training base into 5 Group, Bomber Command. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron) used the airfield for their Wellington operations. Heritage Apprentices in a training session on the Researching The Historic Environment module and training in Architectural Photography. Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}5332N 058W / 53.54N 0.97W / 53.54; -0.97, HM Prison Lindholme is a Category C/D men's prison located near Hatfield Woodhouse in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. Want to know what life was like during the War? 542 Operating Canberras in the Nuclear Test Sampling Role. I guess the other question that needs answeringbeing a bit familar with British Army Mess rules.hats on at breakfast and such.Must I take my own serviette and place it in the cute little pigeon hole or will they provide me with one? JavaScript is disabled. The museum closed and the collection has either been dispersed to other museums or broken up for spares and scrap. timberwork. He is responsible for the management, cleanliness, discipline and general well being of the Mess. Un hombre sin machete en la junglano vale nada. If your soldiers aren't coming off most weekends telling those who weren't there "shit mate, you dipped out" then time to cull your training team with prejudice. Our Most of the original buildings and hangars from the RAF station are still in use as prison accommodation, offices and workshops. All rights reserved. RAF Lindholme Officers Mess had a ghost (allegedly) known as Lindholme Willie who used to walk the corridors in WWII flying kit - this was against the rules/etiquette and anyone who saw him would turn to tell him so, by which time he had disappeared. 0000003882 00000 n +,*cxe3v)D:(lT&Ypi`,2' KmA C,9?sopj_Ozy>y= G 0H #%+!a0bw+#zqBu5n/;F8ctf1mef^s [B}5:]6$^5%BsR h3 =(I:4&_9. Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building. [8] The prison holds Category C convicted males over the age of 21, who are serving a minimum sentence of four years,[1] and used to hold a small number of Category D males, who were awaiting allocation to an open prison. [10] The prison is run by the public sector prison service, but educational services are provided by the City of Manchester College for Learning and Skills, and healthcare is provided by Nottingham NHS Trust. If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Beatrice Campbell's first husband, Squadron Leader Michael Robert MacClancy, of No. 1. This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest. The Wartime Memories Project is run by volunteers and the free to access part of the website is funded by donations from our visitors. Until 2006 a private aviation museum displayed a small collection of ex-RAF aircraft on a grassed area behind the old Station Headquarters, including two Hawker Hunters, a BAC Jet Provost, a de Havilland Vampire, an English Electric Canberra and an English Electric Lightning. 5 Sep 2005. Simon Day. [2] On 5 June 1985 at RAF Hemswell the entire technical site and domestic blocks including a few estates of post war NCO married quarter houses were purchased by Roger Byron-Collins' Welbeck Estate Group company First State Holdings from the Ministry of Defence. He had three flights before his first ops which was on the 23rd May 1943. Several of these aircraft appeared in background shots during filming, doubling for additional No. Call everyone with a barcode on their epaulettes 'mate'. [5] Serco were about to be awarded the contract, but the decision was postponed in July 2013, to allow allegations that they had been overcharging and mismanaging other contracts within the public sector to be investigated. 305 Polish Bomber Squadron, No. Search over 400,000 listed places Overview Official List Entry Comments and Photos Previous Overview The Aviation Safety Network is an exclusive service provided by: Two F-4C-24-MC Phantoms of 92nd TFS, 81st TFW, USAF collided in mid air over Humberside, East Yorkshire. Edgar Andrews took off from RAF Lindholme in Handley Page Hampden X2993 c/s VN-T. Mission, to bomb Berlin, but was shot down by a nightfighter near Kalbe (between Hannover and Berlin). On reflection, I think they dispised a 28 yr old SSgt which would take them an eternity to achieve. HISTORY: The mess building, designed in 1924-5, is an impressive, complete and uniquely distinctive example illustrating the early formulation of planning for the dispersal of RAF buildings from aerial attack, with splayed accommodation wings flanking the main mess block. All rights reserved. 0000003287 00000 n User contributions are not fact checked and do not represent the official position of Historic England. endstream endobj 97 (Strategic Missile) Squadron RAF and 99th Munitions Maintenance Squadron (USAF), Operating Thor IRBM missiles for RAF Bomber Command. Royal Air Force Station Lindholme or more simply RAF Lindholme is a former Royal Air Force station in South Yorkshire, England. [6] Cliffe House, that had been commandeered as the officers' mess and a number of pre-fabricated buildings, quonset huts and the brick built control tower still stand at the abandoned airfield.[7]. Turncoat's guide to causing mayhem in a RAF Officers' Mess: 1. Welbeck Esate Group disposed of several of the buildings at RAF Hemswell to different buyers by private treaty. Flight Engineer F R Jones 1656 HCU (d.3rd September 1944) The Halifax bomber JD417 crashed into a hillside in North Wales while on a training flight on 3rd September, 1944, flying from RAF Lindholm. A framed memento of Albert with a colourised head and shoulders portrait of Albert, an embroidered RAF crest and a 1939 to 1945 Star and Bomber Command Clasp. Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive. Flight Engineer F R Jones 1656 HCU (d.3rd September 1944). See our extensive range of expert advice to help you care for and protect historic places. [2] The last flying squadrons had departed in January of that year but RAF Hemswell was then established as a Bomber Command missile unit, maintaining and operating three PGM-17 Thor Intermediate Range Ballistic Nuclear Missile launchers of No 97 (Strategic Missile) Squadron RAF that remained at Hemswell from December 1959 to May 1963. With the arrival of the Avro Lancaster, Hemswell took on a training role, becoming the home to No. Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Find out about listed buildings and other protected sites, and search the National Heritage List for England (NHLE). During the RAF station's lifetime it was home to the RAF Bomber Command Bombing School (BCBS) and also the RAF Navigation School. Renumbered from No 199 Sqn before arriving at Hemswell from Rochford it was tasked with the training of night bomber pilots destined for service in France. ROYAL AIR FORCE OFFICERS MESS, Non Civil Parish - 1064754 | Historic England Home Listing Search the List List Entry Share ROYAL AIR FORCE OFFICERS MESS ROYAL AIR FORCE OFFICERS MESS, AERODROME ROAD Listed on the National Heritage List for England. EXTERIOR: All in 2 storeys. Part of the Alfred Newton and Sons collection. Several propane gas cylinders exploded and as a result of the intensity of the fire the A631 had to be closed from Harpswell Hill to Caenby Corner.[12]. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2023. This information is added by users of ASN. We can reunite you with your friends who served at RAF Lindholme and we have a wealth of information on different units, bases and ships in the site. If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. I think it would be appropriate to include this on . Served from 1965 - 1971 Served in RAF Lindholme Garry Mitchell SERGEANT Served from 1962 - 1974 Served in RAF Lindholme John Webster CORPORAL Served from 1959 - 1970 Served in RAF Lindholme James Cole SAC Served from 1954 - 1956 Served in RAF Lindholme Kirk Passmore CORPORAL Served from 1958 - 1969 Served in RAF Lindholme Colin Butterworth Description of residential units You'll be in much nicer surroundings and in much better company. Each missile was tipped with a one-megaton nuclear warhead, jointly controlled by the Royal Air Force and the United States Air Force under the so-called dual-key arrangements. The wartime station headquarters building still stands on the new trading estate and is called Gibson House. Officers' mess. Links have central doorway flanked by 3-light steel casements. enterprise. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Royal Air Force RAF Officers Mess Dress Waistcoat ' at the best online prices at eBay! Read about our current news, projects and campaigns nationally and in your area. End bays to right and left gabled, that to right advanced; that to left recessed. mullions, with transoms to taller ground floor, the storey height reflecting the presence On 19 March 1940 RAF Hemswell-based Handley Page Hampdens of No. The annual budget for running Lindholme was 18.3 million in 2011-12, and the cost per prisoner for 2010 was 32,757. Frederick Henry Erdwin 50 Squadron (d.17th April 1941), P/O. 0000003064 00000 n I don't reckon a well used cowboy hankerchief would suffice? In 1974 RAF Lindholme became home to 643 Gliding School Air Training Corps. Explore the many ways you can help to support the incredibly rich and varied heritage. The squadron was disbanded in November 1945. I 0000006116 00000 n No. Archaeologist Dr David Neal discussing his illustration of the mosaic being excavated at Rutland Roman Villa with members of the University of Leicester Archaeological Services team, Bombed library in Holland House, Kensington. Privacy Policy and If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 261046 your information is still in the queue, please do not resubmit, we are working through them as quickly as possible. [11], The prison education department offers inmates opportunities to study for qualifications such as NVQs, GCSEs and A Levels in subjects including English, mathematics, English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), information technology, business administration, graphic design, reprographics and printing, visual art, catering, baking, hospitality, hairdressing and barbering, industrial cleaning, construction industry training in trowel trades, plastering, painting and decorating, carpentry, plumbing, civil engineering, fork lift training, light engineering, railway engineering, horticulture, waste management, textiles, and a range of PE courses. Two versions of the same image, the second The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public. If you know of an event that doesn't appear, you can add it by clicking on the map. They operated winch launched Cadet Mk 3 and Sedbergh gliders conducting air experience and glider pilot training for Air Cadets. If you have any unwanted With the ORBATS you are able to determine exactly where units were on a given date and the battle, action or event they took part in. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Home A further new wing opened in November 2007 with double cells, which is used to hold prisoners who are at risk from bullying and intimidation. In the background a hangar. Lindholme was a country house and hamlet on the eastern boundary of the airfield. John Thompson Lamb (d.17th April 1941), Sgt. Throughout the years of operation, RAF Hemswell's mascot and motto were a large weasel rearing-up on its hind legs ready to strike and the words "Bold and Tenacious" emblazoned over (or under) it. The station was home for Hawker Hind, Hawker Audax, Avro Anson, Bristol Blenheim and Boulton Paul Overstrand aircraft in its early days. It is used by a number of companies as office space. 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