Random Stuff!

[JENNYJET]

I would have thought the International station or the new New Street complex might be a good prospect. Definitely somewhere surrounding the Bull Ring shopping centre!

 

[wolfheze]

Has anyone ever seen this?
Will go and have a look if I can get a better idea of where it's located View attachment 3152

 

[Ray Finkle]

There is something similar on the very edge of Elmdon Park, it's located alongside the A45 opposite where the Monarch hangars are. It's been a while since I've been there so that may not be the one?

 

[wolfheze]

I think that might be the right place.
It must be just up from where the chippy used to be?

 

[richard winterbourn]

By the looks of the brickwork and the heavy concrete top it looks very much like a Second World War bunker. If it is, its part of the history of the airfield and is worthy of being preserved.

 

[wolfheze]

Yes its what was called the battle headquarters where the defence of the airfield would have been coordinated in the event of an invasion

 

[Ray Finkle]

It's only a couple of minutes walk from where the chippy was.

If you click the link below you can just make out part of it, the rest is hidden by the leaves.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.4...4!1s7KiIdwnXMcTJefWhk74sdg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

By the looks of the brickwork and the heavy concrete top it looks very much like a Second World War bunker. If it is, its part of the history of the airfield and is worthy of being preserved.

I'm sure I've read that it was a bunker for protection of the Elmdon Airfield.

More info with pictures of the inside on the link below.

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/db/55.html

 

[TheLocalYokel]

It looks very similar to bunkers that were once at Bristol Airport (BRS) sited inside the airport boundary parallel with the A 38 before it was diverted about 15 years ago. The current Bristol Airport started life as wartime RAF Lulsgate Bottom (sounds vaguely Shakespearean) and the shelters were doubtless for personnel to take cover inside should an air raid occur at the airfield.

At Lulsgate the bunkers were built into raised mounds of earth.

 

[Aviador]

Anyone collect diecast stuff?
Started a collection of the aircraft I used to see. Still some way to go as some types haven't been made for years and some not at all yet. Never actually saw a courtline one eleven but just liked the colour scheme, kind of the British version of Braniff.View attachment 3119

You might like these threads...
http://www.forums4airports.com/threads/3201/
http://www.forums4airports.com/threads/3056/

 

[Elmdon80slad]

Anyone interested in buying the latest Lumix FZ300 bridge camera? I have one its just over a month old just need to raise some cash due to an unexpected situation.

£300

E.

 

[wolfheze]

You might like these threads...
http://www.forums4airports.com/threads/3201/
http://www.forums4airports.com/threads/3056/

Very good. Thanks

 

[wolfheze]

Found the bunker.
A bit battered and full of rubbish but largely intact. Looks like a drainage channel has been dug alongside the A45 so it's a bit watery behind the treeline. I never knew that park even existed. It was quite interesting to see how many properties were once there, most except the rectory and the gatehouse for the estate ( the ramshackle place by the footbridge) were demolished in the 60s.
I used to know someone that lived or maybe still lives at the end of Goodway Rd, made me think when looking at Google maps that his house was directly under the flight path for the short runway, never thought to ask what it was like when we were watching the jets taking off on it that one night. Wouldn't have thought they would have been anymore than 500 ft over his house .

 

[pianokeys]

Bunkers.

Two of these are buried under earth mounds on the Hatchford Brook Golf Course, adjacent to the Fire Service Training Ground. There was also one at the bottom of The Foredrift over on the Marston Green side. Have a vague idea there was also one behind where Hanger 3 used to be, close to where the old club building was.

 

[wolfheze]

I think there may have been a barrage balloon unit based at elmdon if so there would have been large concrete tethering blocks somewhere.

 

[Kevin Farnell]

Bunkers.

Two of these are buried under earth mounds on the Hatchford Brook Golf Course, adjacent to the Fire Service Training Ground.

I used to sit on one of those, as a teenager .

Kevin

 

[wolfheze]

I think there may have been a barrage balloon unit based at elmdon if so there would have been large concrete tethering blocks somewhere.

Bit like these View attachment 3210

 

[wolfheze]

This is insane! Il62 landing in a field so it could go on display in a museum

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Incredible. Imagine taking the dog for a walk and that lands beside you.

 

[Brum X]

BIRMINGHAM booming in the sun.

New HSBC UK bank headquarters

 

[jfy1999]

Work's been going on for a long time there. I can't wait to see the finished product. It's been an outstanding few years for construction.

Off the top of my head I can think of the following developments in Birmingham: New Street, Arena Central, Paradise, Mailbox, Smithfield, Curzon HS2 station, Eastside, Beorma Quarter, Colmore Row Tower, 1 Hagley Road, Park Regis hotel, 2 Cornwall Street, 3 Snowhill, 55 Colmore Row, St George's Urban Village, Granville Lofts, Ridley House, Longbridge town centre, Battery Park, the new housing estate on the old Selly Oak Hospital site, loads of things on Birmingham University campus, and of course the BHX developments.

I can think of several housing estates that need regeneration, particularly in the Aston, Perry Barr and Druids Heath areas as well as many neighbourhoods just north of BHX, but I noticed several run down sites along the Pershore Road corridor are being flattened to have new apartments built on them.