View across field to 2nd W.W. Hospital, Hixon
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View across field to 2nd W.W. Hospital, Hixon
Image: © Mick Malpass Taken: 9 Jul 2011
A local gentleman told me that these buildings were the Hospital and Mortuary, for Airmen who were wounded or worse, on returning from bombing raids to Hixon Airfield during the last war. It is an eerie feeling, to think of all the pain and suffering that went on in these nondescript buildings, and now they are being left to rot away. Thank you to those RAF men and boys who helped to save this country.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.828106
Longitude
-1.994615