Creative Midlands Heritage

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• RAF Cranfield
• Let there be light
• Old school in line for £3m overhaul

RAF Cranfield Posted: 28 Apr 2012 12:28 AM PDT Some history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranfield_Airport Watch Office (modified fort type) views from control room Fire section WWII Fire tender shed and night flying equipment store Motor transport sheds Station headquarters Sergeants mess Airmens quarters Cloud base projector Squadron/flight offices next to C-type hangar Detail of top right office. This was the office for the chief flying instructor and when Guy Gibson held that office he asked that the room be protected. The bulkhead clamps hold steel shutters in place (these are still present) More photos at: Cranfield pictures by trunktemp - Photobucket

Let there be light Posted: 27 Apr 2012 04:46 PM PDT The Baptistry of Coventry Cathedral in the West Midlands is a vast abstract backdrop, designed by John Piper and made – each pane of it – by Patrick Reyntiens. Piper conceived it as a "bomb blast" of white-yellow, surrounded, it seems, ... See all stories on this topic » Financial Times

Old school in line for £3m overhaul Posted: 27 Apr 2012 05:00 AM PDT The Victorian building, in Barracks Road, has been empty since Newcastle Borough Council purchased it from Staffordshire County Council four years ago. But social landlord Choices Housing, currently based in King Street, Newcastle, is now looking at ... See all stories on this topic »

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