401st BG Album - The Tower

The tower as seen from runway 3

18th Weather Squadron Office, teleprinter room on the right

Downstairs office

Fire tender crew ready room

Fire tender crew ready room, looking out towards runway 3

Pyro Store" Steel door to flare cartridge cupboard

Switchgear room. This held the control boxes for the runway and circuit lighting

Stairwell on the upper floor of the control tower

The Conttrol Room

View from the control room northwards over the airfield.

Post-war Royal Observer Corps aircraft observation post on the tower roof.

Outline of the Seco control cabin fitted on the roof in early 1945, overlaid by the post-war ROC post.

VE Day photo showing the Seco control cabin on the roof

Base of the wind speed gauge on the roof

Restored military vehicles wait on the runway for the reunion coach to arrive.

Restored military vehicles parked beside the Control Tower.