Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Where Military Vehicles Go To Die In Britain

Strategic: Known as bomber country, Lincolnshire was covered in RAF bases, and Folkingham for much of the war was used as a decoy for a base a mile away towards Grantham

Where Military Vehicles Go To Die... Inside The Abandoned RAF Station Where Trucks And Boats From D-Day To The Cold War Have Been Left To Rot -- Daily Mail

RAF Folkingham in Lincolnshire was used in Second World War and the Cold War before being shut down in 1963
Its main north/south runway is lined with hundreds of military and other machines, known as the 'vehicle graveyard'

Many of these vehicles helped seal World War Two victory for Britain, including on the beaches of Normandy, but today they rest in a 'vehicle graveyard' on a former RAF base left untouched since 1963.

The closed military site at RAF Folkingham in Lincolnshire is home to an ageing collection of decommissioned military vehicles, farming machinery and lorries dating from the 1940s, which aided the war effort here and in occupied Europe.

The hulking machines are parked in line, falling apart and forgotten, at the edge of the 6,000ft-long runway, some swallowed up by bushes and trees.

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My Comment: A 'pickers' paradise ... maybe.

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