This site is believed to have been used mainly as a storage area, with a few living quarters for crews from the 576th squadron. It is located about one mile north west of the main airfield. It is surrounded by sites 5, 7 and 8. About three buildings remain on the site today. Two underground bunkers are today covered by dense undergrowth but still remain visible as a mound. Access cannot be gained to them due to the vegetation as can be seen in the photos.
What appears to be just a clump of trees and blackberry bushes is in fact a former underground bunker, that nature has sealed.
Next to an original concrete pathway sits another well covered underground bunker. Behind this stand a newly constructed hangar. This is the same spot the original storage hangar stood.On this site situated next to one of the bunker once stood a storage hangar. Today the concrete pad is still there with a new hangar building that has been erected. This can be seen in the photos above. The former hangar was used for coal storage that was used to provide fuel for the stoves in the buildings. In the living quarters, coal was a rationed item, so this site became a frequent haunt for many an airman on a late night coal raid. A veteran once told me how living on site 7, across the road from this site, was quite convenient, as his stove was always well stoked due to these late night 'missions' of acquiring coal. He said they could never figure out why the coal was disappearing so rapidly!
About the only other buildings remaining here are a couple of washroom buildings. These are not intact like the ones on site 10, just the outside structure remains the same. They can be found in what is now a copse, as can be seen in the photographs.
What was once a wash and shower facility now stands derelict and surrounded by woods.
Another shot of the lone building. To the left of the building can be seen industrial units which stand on the former Site 3. It gives an idea of how close all these sites were to each other.A few odd concrete paths still remain scattered around the site. The former entrance path still remains and is now in use as a driveway.
This area is now privately owned and two new houses have been built on the site. As you drive by this former site, its had to envisage it as part of the airfield complex with so much of it long gone.