I'm hoping Gordon comes along... Anyone though can help? The wife let me out on my crutches to bottom of my favourite hill yesterday...Looking into beam wars etc in the area around 1940. This building on crossroads of Kemmerton, Tewkesbury and Cheltenham at bottom of Bredon Hill has me miffed...Now a cow hotel...It looks like an entrance area..10 rooms or offices 5 each side...at rear hardstanding and abalution blocks 2 of em..and what looks like a brick patio... It looks ww2...had power...utility drain covers say airtight rather than normal water tight...guessing cabling. If barracks its in middle of nowhere, not big enough for more than a small platoon. Not anything like the temporary gun and searchlight positions in same area I have come across...Not a Royal Ordinance office or factory...Not in parish records or on web...Its ww2 built, newer type roof though..Looks like it was still in use in fiftees as the electrical supply on walls is of that era...Bredon is facing Malvern and Now Gchq. Bristling in the area with ww2 stuff I am identifying but this thing just stands there...stands out...any one seen similar?
Just been told by someone who lives in local area that it is know as the Old Dairy...that is what it became but he thinks it was ww2 radio control room of some sort originally. Malvern and Y stations were in this area a plenty so I'm glued to AV Jones's book index at the moment.
I find those buildings eerily similar to buildings nearby here where the public cannot visit, where one entering the facility cannot photograph, and ordinance may have been constructed for WWII. They are similar in that red brick of similar tint was used along with a red tile some times......they are slowly disintegrating and the Fort Wingate Army Depot is going through procedures for eventually being returned to native tribes. The similarity may just be caused by this mode of building being the cheapest material of the times I suppose.
Its quite conceivable its American design actuallly...Aschurch the major American depot is withing reach..no more than a few miles. It is on what was the main road to Aschurch in fact. There are a number of depots around here that were built to American specification so any Americans who may have seen similar? I'm open to that thought too.
