No 9, Officers Married Quarters, Kalafrana, Malta, 1966. Find out about listed buildings and other protected sites, and search the National Heritage List for England (NHLE). The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. PLAN: A characteristic symmetrical layout, with 2-storey central block containing public rooms and mess, with transverse axial main mess, and kitchens with services to the rear. At one stage in 1941, in Operation Quickforce, about 100 Henlow fitters were trained for the assembly of Hurricanes on carriers en route for Malta, to which the completed planes were flown off deck. Accept it - otherwise, all the other 'unfair' things will annoy you too. Above the doors to the servery is a bowed balcony with Art Deco metal balustrade, on 4 cantilevered consoles. The state was renamed The Virginia Estate as our offices were in Arlington Virginia and the roads renamed after areas around Washington such as Washington Drive, Prince William Road, Fairfax Road and so on. As the son of an RAF navigator with Bomber Command and then Met Comm who served 40 years from 1939 to 1979 I have been closely involved with this life myself. To the right (north-east) is a later wing (not included). - 23rd November 2011 at 12:27 Permalink The brickwork is swept in at the haunches above the eaves-line and carried up high to a simple capping. 01-DEC-05 shed), RAF Henlow GV II RAF Henlow in Bedfordshire provides the support to enable lodger units to deliver global operations. This has retained an extensive group of married quarters, executed in the Garden City tradition, and barracks and office buildings dated 1933-5 which display unique architectural treatment for a military air base: the most consistently well-handled of these buildings is the officers' mess. - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00, At Finningley in the 1980s there was not enough room in the Sergeant's Mess for all of the newly qualified Aircrew Sergeants, so we were put into a section of MQs on base called 'Gatehouse', It served as a bit of an epicentre for fun and um interesting behavioursee this thread on pprune for a flavour:http://www.pprune.org/military-aircrew/243560-gatehouse.html, By: Box Brownie Between the groups of doors to each span a large down-pipe is carried in a recess to brick piers. (Air Ministry Drawing 1528/18, RAF Museum Hendon; The History of RAF Henlow, RAF Henlow, 1998). Below are just some of our members who have served at RAF Henlow. Listed on the National Heritage List for England. 19 Squadron RAF, No. After I left school and college after training as a surveyor in London l made a conscious decision to specialise in the purchase, preservation of not only married quarters but technical domestic and airfield sites. BritishListedBuildings.co.uk is an independent online resource and is not associated with any government department. Search over 400,000 listed places. VAT No. Marriage is about the rest of your life, not the one day.I concur with the comments made about the army though. If the property market is all about location, the rolling hills of the Lincolnshire Wolds take some beating. Construction at Henlow - conveniently served by the Midland Railway - was begun in 1917, and some of the more substantial structures including the hangars date from this time; the last of the huts dating from this period were demolished in the 1970s. Today, it houses restored aircraft from the RAFs history in a hangar that dates back to 1917.
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