Help save a museum 361st fg Bottisham UK

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We have a Museum which is looking like it may be developed on,could some of you guys and gals please have a read and sign the online petition,
Many Thanks :)
Good Luck to all at Bottisham,the memory of those that served from these bases
Please sign the online petition at
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/...ld-museum.html
and visit the website
http://www.361fg.com/museum.htm

P.S i took a bit of video from the open day,if it is ok i will post a link to it on you tube later:)

[Trooper117]

The link just gives you error 404..

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The link just gives you error 404..
:confused: Strange ,try this one please
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-bottisham-airfield-museum.html

Let me know how you get on :)TA

[leggit]

3rd post link worked for me...signed: hope you save the museum. good luck my friend:)

[Trooper117]

Signed.. and with pleasure. There are so few of these historical sites left, it would be a shame to see it end up as just another 'development' in the name of progress!

[DD_crash]

Done :)

[raaaid]

ill fill it when i have sometime

oh god i work 4 hours a day but so much to do and so litle time :(

[Dano]

Signed.. and with pleasure. There are so few of these historical sites left, it would be a shame to see it end up as just another 'development' in the name of progress!

+1 :)

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:)
:) I have done a small video for you tube.It gives an idea of what the place looks like,the original buildings.There are are alot more artefacts inside but i didn't record them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTE8dultdIQ
P.S i am just learning the editing side so sorry it's not BBC all advice welcome on Sony vegas 10

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:)
Jason, Bottisham Airfield Museum Chairman has asked me to post this.


“Thank you to everyone who has supported our campaign to save this historic site at Bottisham. We are exploring every avenue available to us and have been in touch with the Airfield Conservation Trust and the Airfield Information Exchange, both of whom have pledged their support. At the moment the landowner is in talks with a number of developers and until these talks are further along it is difficult to know what sort of planning application we will be facing. The Bottisham Airfield Museum Group will do our level best to save the site but in the event we do lose it then we are determined that the museum will carry on.”

Jason Webb, Bottisham Airfield Museum Chairman

Cheers J

jasonwebb361@btinternet.com

P.S If anyone wants to get hands on there will be restoration evenings coming up ,please contact Jason to let him know and i will post dates and times when they are decided.

[swiss]

I'm sorry to say that, but it seems were talking about a backyard with some remains of a former airfield in the middle of a village.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=52.225092,0.260389&num=1&sll=52.223238,0.258424&sspn=0.098428,0.3368&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=52.225118,0.260367&spn=0.018244,0.036478&z=14&source=embed

In all honesty this is neither the right place nor has this museum a future - because of the location.
Afaik, there are plenty of bigger sites outside villages rotting, maybe it's time to move on and focus on one of those?

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Swiss



“I am not sure if you have ever visited the site or the museum – it is not a backyard but instead a completely intact complex of 6 wartime buildings & 2 air raid shelters. I can’t think of a better site for the museum and I believe the museum does have a future telling the story of an important wartime airfield & we have as much right to survive as similar museums such as Bassingbourn, Parham, Rougham etc that tell the stories of their airfields.”

Jason Webb BAMG Chairman

[swiss]

Who owns that piece of land?

[Zorin]

I made a quick overlay. Could you please point me to where these remaining buildings are? Couldn't find them on the satellite images.

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb107/ZorinW/Overlay-2.jpg

[swiss]

see post #11

your image is too small, the are a few hundred yards up north

[Zorin]

see post #11

your image is too small, the are a few hundred yards up north

Yes, I just realized that the buildings are about 1km away from the actual field.

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" Bottisham was in some ways unique in that many of the airfield buildings were dotted throughout the village and not on the airfield. The museum is on the old Site 4 of Bottisham airfield & we are fortunate that site 4 survives in its entirety virtually as it was in 1944.”
Jason Webb
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Having visited there this summer you really do get the feeling of going back and treading in places where things were so different 60+ years ago.All the buildings are in close proximity and to me once they have been destroyed and built on that would be a bit of history gone.

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http://www.361fg.com/museum.htm

I have uploaded an updated edited video of Bottisham open day so you can get an idea of the layout,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A046jkdsM-U
still processing so give it a minute ,cheers :)