RSAF Enfield current day visit ( photos )

[Joshby]

G'day folks,

was fortunate enough on a recent visit to the UK to visit what remains of RSAF Enfield.
It was turned into a housing estate / small business park at the end of 2001.
All that remains is the original clock tower( built 1816) and main building.
Most of the old 'machine shed' roof has been retained and now is subdivided into small office buildings as seen in some of the photos.

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[Roger Payne]

Thanks very much. Nice photo's. I see the barge is called the 'Harold Turpin'!

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Better repurposed than bulldozed! Nice photos. Thanks for sharing them.

[Mk VII]

A lot of the streets on that estate are named after significant firearms personalities.
BAe reportedly got more money for the land, and that of the Waltham Abbey Explosives Factory up the road, than they paid for the whole factory operation.

[Peter Laidler]

An astute observation there DRP. Harold Turpin.......... a man with the most remarkable mechanical acumen whose imagination knew no bounds. If you didn't realise it Forumers, he was the Chief Designer at Enfield, passed away in 1977 and was the inventor of and 'T' in Sten gun along with S for Major Reginald Shepherd and En for England.

Yep, a remarkable man. You could have a Thompson gun, paid for, up front, in gold for £50 or a home grown Lanchester for £11 or a Sten gun for £2:37p. After all, you can only kill a man so dead...........

[bouletbill]

Well I never ... all these years I thought the 'En' stood for 'Enfield' ..... as with also the Brno/Enfield (BREN)!

[Brit plumber]

I wish I was around in 1941 cos I'd have bought a few Thompsons, a few Lanchesters and a hundred STEN guns. Oh, and a few million rounds of ammo.

[Roger Payne]

You could probably have had a free foreign holiday (on the governement) as well....!

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

You could probably have had a free foreign holiday (on the governement) as well....!

No there is s bit of that Brit humor we admire.

[Peter Laidler]

Very common mistake Boulet. In the case of the Sten, it was England. This fact ensured that after the war, when inventors and designers could apply for royalties on their products, both Shepherd and Turpin could claim that their invention was their own and not the Governments. Alas, because they were both employed by the Government, their claim was severely curtailed. They got £1,500 each - taxed at the wartime rate of 40%