RSAF Enfield current day visit ( photos )

[Warren]

Nice to see the old lock again......Herbie Woodend and I were sitting on the banks of the lock with pint in hand (both hands) when they announced the closure of RSAF Enfield Lock. The pub...RIFLES was just a buzzing and Herb said there was a thousand plots taking place in there to see what could probably go home in lunch buckets.
I've been at the closure of two Pattern Rooms: Enfield Lock and Nottingham and both were sad occasions. Both times the collection was in danger of being destroyed. It was always the suspected that the MOD would go in on the weekend and just cut everything up. It is always easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. While access at Leeds is not as easy as it was with Herbie and Richard, it is still a world class arms collection and someday..........
I'll dig out some pictures of the original Pattern Room and post them.

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I'll dig out some pictures of the original Pattern Room and post them.

Plesase do!

[Joshby]

Fredrick 303 interesting post mate, walked around this site with my grandfather - a veteran who served king and country 2nd world war (prior to being called eg enlisted ) his observations of the site were the opposite to mine. I was in awe of the engineering events that had taken place over the last 196 years, he was solemn of an area that had produced implements of death.
Disappointing however that RSAF Enfield only has a tiny room dedicated, compared to RSAF Lithgow, Australia who have a massive museum and arms collection - anybody on the forum live near Lithgow?