Romney hut on the Council Depot in Liberator Way
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Romney hut on the Council Depot in Liberator Way
Image: © Evelyn Simak Taken: 3 Jun 2015
One of the few original buildings which have survived on the former Technical site of RAF Eye, which was an active airfield in WW2. The Council Depot occupies part of a spectacle dispersal and this particular hut would seem to have been moved to its current location from across the road from here. Romney huts are prefabricated steel structures. They were developed during WW2 and constructed of a clamped clamped tubular steel frame with a central entrance. The hut was used to accommodate facilities for which abnormal roof spans were required and on some airfields two or more would be erected to house large stores and workshops.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.339659
Longitude
1.133927