What are these buildings ?

[Pesty]

Walking the dog earlier found these buildings. Not fenced off just lying around in farmland near a few public footpaths.

They look like some sort of ww2 shelters but have loads of chimneys sticking out the top.

Might be hard to scale from pic but they are not large. Prob single car width 2 car long garage.

Thought maybe farming animals but two small and no sound. Rhubarb!? But again too small.

[Hoofy]

Mushrooms? Cheese?

The Shire?

[Spyder5]

No idea, but I'd be interested to know! Where in Country are they?

[Pesty]

Dunsville,doncaster

[DIW35]

The way they are spaced out suggests ammunition storage to me, though no idea why they would need chimneys for that. Was there an airfield there during the war?

[Pesty]

DIW35 said:

The way they are spaced out suggests ammunition storage to me, though no idea why they would need chimneys for that. Was there an airfield there during the war?

Not that I'm aware of.

There was RAF finingly about 7 miles away as the crow flies and Lindholme air field was active during ww2 but again approx 7 to 8 miles as the crow flies.

There were three quarries within a couple of miles from there but as far as I'm aware always been farm land.

The chimneys which you can see as white dots on the pic could have been added later of course.

[Spyder5]

Brick Kilns?

[Pesty]

Brick kilns. Maybe. The quarries were sand quarry's I believe or at least the closest one to it was. Can't add a narrow on this iPad but bigger pic. Buildings right in center ish

[ninja-lewis]

Google suggests an old ICI explosives store for supplying the extensive mining industry in the area.

[Pesty]

Thank you. Your google foo is strong.

Edit mining. Yes lots of coal mines in the area or were.

[kev1974]

"Cold war ordnance stores" apparently, constructed some time between 1960 - 67

http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=144037...
(click on Detail / More Information)

Perhaps the chimneys have been more recently added, to convert them to more conventional storage, or mushroom farming or something.

No idea why such a thing would be in such a location down the end of such a tiny track.

[Corpulent Tosser]

They look very similar to air raid shelters we used to play in as kids. They were beside a jute factory and built to protect workers during WWII but weren't removed until the sixties.

[jr6yam]

Fireworks factory...

[StuntmanMike]

They aren't buildings, Doncaster has got measles.

[gpo746]

S.H.A.D.O storage units.
Used for housing SHADO Mobiles.
Ed Straker just confirmed it.

[clonmult]

DIW35 said:

The way they are spaced out suggests ammunition storage to me, though no idea why they would need chimneys for that. Was there an airfield there during the war?

I would tend to agree; I worked at a place that had a LOT of such storage, and the layout was almost identical.

Maybe the site has been "repurposed" and they're now accomodation?

[Skodaku]

kev1974 said:

"Cold war ordnance stores" apparently, constructed some time between 1960 - 67

http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=144037...
(click on Detail / More Information)

Perhaps the chimneys have been more recently added, to convert them to more conventional storage, or mushroom farming or something.

No idea why such a thing would be in such a location down the end of such a tiny track.

Faldingworth in Lincolnshire used to be home to lots of nuclear weapons for our V-bombers. Faldingworth is not a big place.

[anonymous-user]

Pesty said:

They look like some sort of ww2 shelters but have loads of chimneys sticking out the top.

Not chimneys......Ventilation shafts.

[StuntmanMike]

gpo746 said:

S.H.A.D.O storage units.
Used for housing SHADO Mobiles.
Ed Straker just confirmed it.

SHADO mobiles were the frigging coolest.