Comments on: East Halton World War 2 Anti Aircraft Battery Balloon Site http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/east-halton-world-war-2-anti-aircraft-battery-balloon-site A Site About Everything and Nothing Thu, 17 May 2012 21:35:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on East Halton World War 2 Anti Aircraft Battery Balloon Site by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/east-halton-world-war-2-anti-aircraft-battery-balloon-site#comment-26294 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:30:11 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/east-halton-world-war-2-anti-aircraft-battery-balloon-site#comment-26294 Suzanne, many thanks for that and welcome to the site All the best Rod Suzanne,
many thanks for that and welcome to the site
All the best
Rod

]]> Comment on East Halton World War 2 Anti Aircraft Battery Balloon Site by: suzanne http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/east-halton-world-war-2-anti-aircraft-battery-balloon-site#comment-26286 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:11:06 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/east-halton-world-war-2-anti-aircraft-battery-balloon-site#comment-26286 my nephew put your article on my facebook page as he thought it was where his grandad, my father was stationed during the war. After speaking to my father who is now 91 but very astute I discovered that he was indeed stationed at East Halton which was an anti - aircraft sight. dad was on a search light and spotted the first German night bomber to be shot down, he recalls it was a heinklen 111 and came down over the sea, no-one bailed out and the date was June 1940. his name is George Cooper my nephew put your article on my facebook page as he thought it was where his grandad, my father was stationed during the war. After speaking to my father who is now 91 but very astute I discovered that he was indeed stationed at East Halton which was an anti - aircraft sight. dad was on a search light and spotted the first German night bomber to be shot down, he recalls it was a heinklen 111 and came down over the sea, no-one bailed out and the date was June 1940. his name is George Cooper

]]> Comment on East Halton World War 2 Anti Aircraft Battery Balloon Site by: bob http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/east-halton-world-war-2-anti-aircraft-battery-balloon-site#comment-23847 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:26:31 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/east-halton-world-war-2-anti-aircraft-battery-balloon-site#comment-23847 Hi On one of my rambles with a friend i came across a similar sort of building, mostly underground though. entrances bricked off and heavily damaged i assume due to the years. It was in Halton woods in Aylesbury, no grid ref. It looked as though it was lived in with guttering in the brickwork, and as i say an entrance. it looks the same size as the one shown in the photo. it is almost half mile from the edge of the training wing of R.A.F Halton so leads me to believe that this is connected but it shows no signs of mechanics you normally see to suugest it had an emplacement on it. So maybe a training bunker for when it was functional im finding it diificult to find out on the net so hopefully you may be able to help? Thank you Bob Hi

On one of my rambles with a friend i came across a similar sort of building, mostly underground though. entrances bricked off and heavily damaged i assume due to the years.
It was in Halton woods in Aylesbury, no grid ref.
It looked as though it was lived in with guttering in the brickwork, and as i say an entrance. it looks the same size as the one shown in the photo. it is almost half mile from the edge of the training wing of R.A.F Halton so leads me to believe that this is connected but it shows no signs of mechanics you normally see to suugest it had an emplacement on it.
So maybe a training bunker for when it was functional im finding it diificult to find out on the net so hopefully you may be able to help?

Thank you

Bob

]]> Comment on East Halton World War 2 Anti Aircraft Battery Balloon Site by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/east-halton-world-war-2-anti-aircraft-battery-balloon-site#comment-11889 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:53:23 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/east-halton-world-war-2-anti-aircraft-battery-balloon-site#comment-11889 Hi Steve, many thanks for the informative comment and welcome to the site. That's really just the sort of thing we love to hear and the sort of information we're trying to collate and preserve. Many thanks indeed Cheers Rod Hi Steve,
many thanks for the informative comment and welcome to the site.
That’s really just the sort of thing we love to hear and the sort of information we’re trying to collate and preserve.
Many thanks indeed
Cheers
Rod

]]> Comment on East Halton World War 2 Anti Aircraft Battery Balloon Site by: Steve Leighton http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/east-halton-world-war-2-anti-aircraft-battery-balloon-site#comment-11888 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:50:20 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/east-halton-world-war-2-anti-aircraft-battery-balloon-site#comment-11888 I remember my now late Father telling a story of his time in the Home Guard when he was stationed on the Humber They were manning the Anti Aircraft Rocket Projectors allong the River as I beleive the Luftwaffe used the Humber- Trent as a Route to the Midlands. I remember my now late Father telling a story of his time in the Home Guard when he was stationed on the Humber
They were manning the Anti Aircraft Rocket Projectors allong the River as I beleive the Luftwaffe used the Humber- Trent as a Route to the Midlands.

]]> Comment on East Halton World War 2 Anti Aircraft Battery Balloon Site by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/east-halton-world-war-2-anti-aircraft-battery-balloon-site#comment-10247 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:48:14 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/east-halton-world-war-2-anti-aircraft-battery-balloon-site#comment-10247 Hi Chris, it is extremely interesting and hopefully we'll get somebody passing by one day that knows more of life there at the time. EH call the site you mention East Halton and I think that the excellent site you mentioned previously http://www.17balloons.co.uk/pages/page-07.html refers to TA 1400 2300 and not the site pictured above. What do you think . . . ? Cheers Rod Hi Chris,
it is extremely interesting and hopefully we’ll get somebody passing by one day that knows more of life there at the time.
EH call the site you mention East Halton and I think that the excellent site you mentioned previously
http://www.17balloons.co.uk/pages/page-07.html refers to TA 1400 2300 and not the site pictured above.

What do you think . . . ?
Cheers
Rod

]]> Comment on East Halton World War 2 Anti Aircraft Battery Balloon Site by: chris keyworth http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/east-halton-world-war-2-anti-aircraft-battery-balloon-site#comment-10244 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:51:12 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/east-halton-world-war-2-anti-aircraft-battery-balloon-site#comment-10244 Hi Rod The Hull Docks Decoy was located at TA 1400 2300 it was an area litt at night to resemble Hull Dock yards the picture of the small brick hut above, i found a picture of that on the website that i put a link to the other day, it has a man on the roof with a lewis gun, very interesting... regards chris Hi Rod

The Hull Docks Decoy was located at TA 1400 2300 it was an area litt at night to resemble Hull Dock yards

the picture of the small brick hut above, i found a picture of that on the website that i put a link to the other day, it has a man on the roof with a lewis gun, very interesting…

regards
chris

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