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#RAFLincolnshire
> RAF Bases
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Alma Park
Anwick
Bardney
Barkston
Heath
Belton Park
Binbrook
Blankney Hall
Blyton
Boston Wyberton Fen
Bottesford
Bracebridge Heath
Braceby
Buckminster
Bucknall
Caistor
Cockthorne
Coleby Grange
Coningsby
Cranwell
Cuxwold
Digby
Donna Nook
Dunholme Lodge
East Halton
East Kirkby
Elsham Wolds
Faldingworth
Fiskerton
Folkingham
Freiston
Fulbeck
Gosberton
Goxhill
Grantham
Greenland Top
Grimsby
Grimsthorpe Park
Harlaxton
Hemswell
Hibaldstow
Holbeach
Humberston
Immingham
Ingham
Ingoldmels
Kelstern
Killingholme
Kirmington
Kirton in Lindsey
Langtoft
Leadenham
Lincoln West Common
Ludford Magna
Manby
Market Deeping
Market Stainton
Mere
Metheringham
Moorby
Morton Hall
New Holland
Nocton Hall
Normanby
North Coates
North Killingholme
North Witham
Norton Disney
Orby
Rauceby
Saltby
Sandtoft
Scampton
Skegness
Skellingthorpe
Skendleby
South Carlton
South Elkington
South Witham
Spilsby
Spitalgate
Stenigot
Strubby
Sturgate
Sutton Bridge
Swinderby
Swinstead
Theddlethorpe
Tydd St Mary
Waddington
Wainfleet
Waltham (Grimsby)
Wellingore
Wickenby
Wigsley
Winterton
Woodhall Spa
Updated: 3 Jan 13
Opened: Nov 1943
Closed: 1958
Location: SK877642
Access: Restricted. Footpath and bridleway pass within 300 metres.
Formations based here:
5 Gp HQ :: Nov 1943 - 15 Dec 1945 (disbanded)
91 Gp HQ :: Apr 1947
21 Gp HQ :: 1 May 1947 - 1 Mar 1955
5131 Bomb Disposal Squadron :: >=1948 - 1958
5 Group moved its headquarters from St Vincents (RAF Grantham) in Nov 1943 to Morton Hall, near Swinderby. It was disbanded on 15 Dec 1945.
No 21 (Training) Group absorbed No 91 (Training) Group, Bomber Command on 1 May 1947, taking over that Group’s HQ at Morton Hall, having previously been at St Vincents. While here it absorbed 54 Group before disbanding in turn on 1 Mar 1955.
Later, until the closure of the Hall as an RAF facility in 1958, it was the home of 5131 Bomb Disposal Squadron.
Morton Hall was converted to a prison for female offenders, Her Majesty's Prison (HMP) Morton Hall, a Category D female semi-open prison, in 1985. It was taken over by the UK Border Agency and opened as an Immigration Removal Centre on 1 Jun 2011. The original hall does not remain, having burnt down in the 1980s, although the grounds are partially retained.
Memorials
There is an RAF memorial which is now located within the IRC. In spite of this it can be viewed by members of the public by appointment.
Books
More Tales of a Bomber Command WAAF: Further Wartime Experiences of a Former Airwoman by Sylvia Pickering
In this second book about Sylvia's life as a WAAF she is posted from RAF Coningsby as a 'disturbing influence' and a 'subversive element' only to prove her detractors wrong in a most satisfactory way when posted to HQ 5 Group (Bomber Command) at Morton Hall.
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