My grandfather used to tell me stories of him and his brother sneaking across Parkhall during this time to poach rabbits. Ended up getting arrested at one point. The gate posts were there before long before the bunker decoys. There was apparently a small farm holding up there 100+ years ago and the gate posts are all that is left of it.
when i was a kid in the late sixties and early seventies we used to play in the building that is still standing today, like you said there was also an underground bunker that we also went in but was capped off when the country park was being developed in the mid seventies.
I learned what this was for a few years ago, and was astonished. The poor people of Weston Coyney proboaly thought they would never be bombed, as they were not really near any major industrial areas. Little did they know......
I think hack green nuclear bunker in Nantwich was also a decoy site before it became a radar station and bunker in the 50s “ “. In 1941 Hack Green, was previously used as a bombing decoy site for the main railway centre at Crewe was chosen to become RAF Hack Green, to protect the land between Birmingham and Liverpool from hostile attack
My grandfather used to tell me stories of him and his brother sneaking across Parkhall during this time to poach rabbits. Ended up getting arrested at one point. The gate posts were there before long before the bunker decoys. There was apparently a small farm holding up there 100+ years ago and the gate posts are all that is left of it.
when i was a kid in the late sixties and early seventies we used to play in the building that is still standing today, like you said there was also an underground bunker that we also went in but was capped off when the country park was being developed in the mid seventies.
So glad you told this story I’m sure no one’s believes me what it was xx
I walk around there always thought it was a bunker of some sort, didn’t think it was a decoy though lol
I learned what this was for a few years ago, and was astonished. The poor people of Weston Coyney proboaly thought they would never be bombed, as they were not really near any major industrial areas. Little did they know......
I think hack green nuclear bunker in Nantwich was also a decoy site before it became a radar station and bunker in the 50s “
“. In 1941 Hack Green, was previously used as a bombing decoy site for the main railway centre at Crewe was chosen to become RAF Hack Green, to protect the land between Birmingham and Liverpool from hostile attack
I youst to live in Weston Coyney.