It was opened in 1939. Trained sailors for WW2. My dad trained there.

I urbexed this place with a few mates probably a couple of years before you took this video, I placed a written remembrance dedication sealed in plastic to those who served at HMS Vulture. We had a ladder so it's right at the top of the tower in the actual observation control room.

Diese Musik😂😂 , da gehört was lustiges dazu

Very well researched. one building missed; the gymnasium standing on its own about a mile SE. At the village church, you'll find headstones of young trainee pilots who died during training flights here....like over 9000 of their comrade pilots who died in training accidents in WW1...those early aeroplanes were just that; too early.

My Father was there as a Petty Officer during the 50's what a terrible shame to see the place in that condition........

Brilliant video well done

Special Delivery, is this where Virgin Atlantic got the idea

80 years after the war, what will it look like in another 80 years ?

Thank you for a great video ,

Thank you for a lovely video, good to have videos like this , as a record, for when these buildings are nolonger here , thank you👍🇬🇧

Adorable

Used to live in the Corsham and Box area of Whiltshire. All MDO AND lines of Defence during WW2. Played in many great pill boxes in the area.Great fun as a child.

Superb footage thanks

I’m pretty sure they have demolished this.

It's now a bat sanctuary! At least its now being looked after by the locals

My late father C.R.S. Bill Cook RN, did some final training there before going to Ascension Island as part of Naval Party 1984, to set up a monitoring station for GCHQ.

Gee if hanging caused instant death why leave the body hanging for a half an hour?

How's rex ?

The warden should at least read the death warrant to the inmate and ask him if he has any last words. This is done in front of the gallows and then he is walked up the 13 steps to the rope that has 13 loops. There should be witnesses to that and the execution. While it shouldn't be dragged out, it would take at least 5 minutes to do those things.

they're multiplying

ACE film john.full respects,new sub..

Great pictures an slide show thank you, but pictures moving to fast for me to absorb content..

I live here and the buildings are in even more decay. The farmer who owns this land has been approached several times to sell the land to the museum etc so it can be restored and opened as a living museum in dedication to all those who gave their lives, but the owner farmer is an asshole.

Your spinning transitions make me dizzy!

Thank you for a good video ,and with no stupid background music. I have liked and subscribed ,hopefully more to come.

I don't recognise anything. Where are the billets? I was on radar fitter training in 1956 billet z9

What are the two ropes with the nut for?

Looks more like a training camp for immature retards with spray cans. Brainless morons !!!

I hate grafitti with a passion you`d find hard to believe.

Very interesting John, shame so much has been lost. Farmers pee me off, they use these buildings til they fall down but it never occurs to them to invest a bit of time in maintenance, as for money................

How is Rex doing today? Greetings from Germany. 😍🐢

Excellent footage,really interesting for me as I live a couple of miles away in hinton charterhouse which has a couple of pillboxes and an anti tank ditch in what was stop line green. Things like this need conservation orders on for future generations I think

Very interesting, nice to see that so much survives. I do wish that maodern day owners were obliged to maintain buildings to a reasonable degree and not let them just fall down. BTW it`s NissEn hut, Nissan is a car maker. Incidentally I just Googled this airfield and found that a short distance away is Dunkeswell airfield which appears to be in use and well cared for. Might be worth a visit too.

spent a week there around 79/80 with my local sea cadets remember the assuilt course which was hard think the place was a trainning base fo petty officers

I visited the field last year covered in photovoltaic cells but you can see the buildings close to the Fosse Way. I was born in Chippenham and lived near Swindon but was never aware of this field’s history. Thank you for the details. The only thing more disappointing than a disused airfield is a neglected Golf Course imho. ie Highworth Golf Centre, Swindon.

I did my leadership course there in 1969. Remember the obstacle course, and collecting rum.

Good photos

Good video well explained.

In my opinion, the way the mother skunk just came to her babies after a minute of the video translates, "Don't worry, Mama's here to care for all of you."

They are sooo stinking cute! 🤍💛🧡❤💜💙

Missed out the flight simulator room one of the most interesting buildings

hello, is this full grown tortoise? we have just got marginated tortoise and its just 8months old.

Just who are the jerks thar mark a dislike? What us there to dislike except their ignorance

I paused here onced, at the endof a runway and took a photo, my comment was " From here they went to St mere Eglise, D=Day 1944 God Bless 'em all

I remember this sort of thing as a child, I knew several of my heroes who are no more, I did not understand then being a child, the shame is those have the ability to understand...do not. Some do not even try to

Photos turned too quickly very annoying.

It's plain to see the aircraft that lost crewmembers. It's all terribly sad because they were all young men with their lives ahead of them. I've met a few former servicemen. One was an RAF navigator with titanium knees as a result of a bombing mission over Germany. Another was the mother of a friend and the mother fought at Stalingrad.

Looking forward to watching mine grow up.

Fascinating and moving video, thanks. I know time moves on but to echo words already said on here, I wish more airfields and infrastructure was preserved.

I served hear and looked after the armoury and parade ground back in 1986 - 87/88 fantastic place