from temporary brick with a rendered finish. The other communal living sites at Burtonwood were of pre fabrication type construction. Group photo of USAAF personal during world war 2 at site 6.
barracks hut building 14 during world war 2. The metal brackets supporting the pipework are for the district heating system. In the background can be seen an air raid shelter and a building belonging to Brooke house farm.
same time but with different personnel.
of the photo (taken on the 4th of April 1957). When site 6 was constructed during WW2 the farmhouse itself was retained and incorporated into the site. To the immediate right of the road is were site 6 is located and to the left of the road is Lythgoe site.
The square above the front door once had a sign on it that read 'Lythgoe house'.
Note the Chapel on the Left in the Background.
Site 6 is located on the South West corner of the airfield behind the back of Technical Site. The site was built on land belonging to Brook House Farm. The farm house was retained & used in the actual construction of the site. The site was originally built for the RAF & was constructed with temporary brick rendered finish buildings. The buildings consisted of 18 barrack huts with ablutions and latrines, mess halls and kitchens. On the 15th of July 1942 the USAAF arrived on site 6 & immediately enlarged the site building 60 nissan huts, ablution blocks, latrines, 2 mess halls, recreation hall & ration store house and at first was known as 'Tinker Hall'. This additional expansion of site 6 extended back West behind 'G' site and became known as 'Lythgoe site'. The Americans left after WW2 but re-occupied site 6 in September 1948 and stayed there until the late 1950's. Control was handed back to the RAF on the 18th of June 1965. The site fell into disrepair and was never reused and was soon demolished.
The Building to the Right in the Background is Building 5 and is the Left Wing of the Mess Hall
Note the lagged pipes going across the centre of the photo. The 3 buildings at the back is building number 5 and were the mess rooms with the kitchen in the middle. Also note the 'K' type hangar in the far right background on 'Tech Site'.
position in 2014 as the oneabovein 1944. The new ASDA storage facility is currently under construction (2014) in the background.
south towards the warehouse workshops & the 3 bellman hangars which became part of G- site. The USAF installed this type of pole in the 1950s replacing them from the old WW2 wooden type poles.
Asda warehouse is in the background.
Brook house farm stood in the background behind the tall trees where the Asda warehouse stands.
Lythgoe site was located immediately west behind site 6 and g site when the 8th USAAF arrived on the 15th July 1942 they immediately constructed 60 Nissen huts, ablution blocks, 2 mess halls, and a recreation hall. The Americans left after WW2 but reoccupied the site on September 1948 and stayed there until the late 1950s. like most communal living sites at Burtonwood Lythgoe site had a variety of different buildings mostly the Nissen type hut. The Nissen hut is a prefabricated steel structure made from a half-cylindrical skin of corrugated steel. This type of building was invented by engineer Major Peter Norman Nissen during WW1. 1,054 Nissen huts existed on Burtonwood during the 1950s and it is estimated that there were originally over 2,000 on the base. Nissen hut building plan
illustrating the cramped conditions the service personnel and their families had to live in during the 1950s.
In the background can be seen the airside east perimeter fence of g site with one of its L type hangars.
