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Lavenham, Suffolk

Lavenham / Alpheton
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April 1944
October 1948
Aviation / Agriculture
N/A
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e22043

17 August 2024​
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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

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)

MEMORIAL SITE : Lavenham Town Sign


MEMORIAL SITE : USAAF Station 137 Memorial Plaque​


MISCELLANEOUS : The Swan Hotel


MUSEUM SITE : Lavenham Guildhall

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