Lavenham, Suffolk
Lavenham / Alpheton
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April 1944
October 1948 Aviation / Agriculture N/A N/A e22043 17 August 2024 137 www.487thbg.org www.lavenham.co.uk/airfield |
AIRFIELD SITE : Aerial Views of RAF Lavenham Airfield
AIRFIELD SITE : Blast Shelter
LOCATED AT : 52.130974, 0.768316
EDOFBID : e39807
EDOFBID : e39807
AIRFIELD SITE : Runway 04/22
AIRFIELD SITE : Runway 15/33
AIRFIELD SITE : Taxiways
AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown Replica Bunker
AIRFIELD SITE : Windsock
BUILDING 2 : Flight Offices
BUILDING 3 : Flight Offices
BUILDING 4 : Flight Offices
BUILDING 5 : Flight Offices
BUILDING 7 : Floodlight Tractor & Trailer Shed
BUILDING 8 : Control Tower / Watch Office
BUILDING 19 : Hangar / T2 Type Aircraft Shed
BUILDING 26 : Flight Offices
BUILDING 27 : Flight Offices
BUILDING 28 : Flight Offices
BUILDING 29 : Flight Offices
BUILDING 30 : Main Workshops
BUILDING 33 : Gas Defence Centre
BUILDING 36 : Main Stores, Offices & Rubber Store
BUILDING 37 : Main Stores, Offices & Rubber Store
BUILDING 38 : Gas Clothing & Respirator Store
BUILDING 39 : Dinghy Shed
BUILDING 47 : Works Service Buildings
BUILDING 51 : MT Shed & Yard
BUILDING 53 : MT Bulk Petrol Installation
BUILDING 55 : Link Trainer Building
BUILDING 55a : A/M Bombing Teacher
This building is labelled on the site plan as an A/M Bombing Teacher Building, 1 Compartment. However the building is actually thought to be a single compartment Link Trainer Building, further research is needed to confirm.
BUILDING 58 : Free Gunnery Trainer
BUILDING 63 : Radar Workshop
BUILDING 152 : Gymnasium
BUILDING 167 : Dining Room & Cinema Projection Room Annexe
BUILDING 168 : Sergeants Mess
BUILDING 169 : Commanding Officer's Quarters
BUILDING 171 & 172 : Sergeant's & Officer's Shower Block
BUILDING 182 : Airmen's Showers, Ablutions & Decontamination
BUILDING 187 : Sergeant's Showers
BUILDING 188 : Officer's Showers
BUILDING 220 : Sergeant's & Airmen's Ablutions
BUILDING 222 : Airmen's Latrines
BUILDING 241 : Pump House
MEMORIAL SITE : 487th Bomb Group & 70th Anniversary of VE Day Memorial Plaque
MEMORIAL SITE : 487th Bomb Group Memorial Oak Tree
MEMORIAL SITE : 487th Bomb Group Memorial Plaque
MEMORIAL SITE : 487th Bomb Group Memorial Porch
MEMORIAL SITE : Airfield Ident Letters Memorial
MEMORIAL SITE : Church of St Peter and St Paul
MEMORIAL SITE : David Alston Memorial Plaque
MEMORIAL SITE : Lavenham Cemetery
Buried in this Cemetery are:
Sergeant George Lewis Dent (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant George Lewis Dent (Royal Air Force)
MEMORIAL SITE : Lavenham Town Sign
MEMORIAL SITE : USAAF Station 137 Memorial Plaque
MISCELLANEOUS : The Swan Hotel
MUSEUM SITE : Lavenham Guildhall
