RAF Edzell Revisited 2021

Under no circumstaces should you attempt entry at this location. Visitors are not welcome due to commercial security and health and safety. I got special permission and had to be escorted. These are just some of the shots taken that day. I believe there is planning permission in place for housing and industrial units.
Security here is like Fort Knox, believe me.
The original design drawing numbers and descriptions are shown and were taken from an original 1940's site plan. Of course when the USN used the base later, they adapted and changed the use of many buildings and indeed added a few of their own. A really amazing place and I am grateful to the owner for allowing me access and the chance to get some images.
If you need to use any of the images then please ask and I can send you the high res originals.
These are just some of the images shot on the day.
Please contact me for more information
Graham Innes
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Most of the pictures I took on the day can be seen on my Flickr account www.flickr.com...
Also, check out the great work being done by the "Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust" link www.abct.org.uk/

[@user-zh2cu2jk9j]

I was there from 1983 to 1985. Worked at the radio station. It's strange to see it now, all just sitting there rotting away. I'd like to go back, but as they say, you never can go back. It's a different world now, and what took place on that base is all obsolete.

[@donaldsmith1920]

I was stationed there 1971-1972. Brings back memories.

[@mrrey8937]

87-89 here

[@Reneelwaring]

My dad was in the USN and we were stationed here in 69-70. I remember walking those airfields with my dad, and my sister attended school in a one room school house that sat on the old airfield. We attended classes in Edzell until space could be found on the base for us. We LOVED Scotland, and my own twin daughters are planning a visit with their husbands this year. This was my favorite place until I spent time in Alaska. No castles but it is beautiful.

[@tmac9220]

Thanks for that… brings back memories from my time there 1987-89. Loved it there!

[@mrrey8937]

87-89 here as well CTM.

[@macdodd]

I was lucky to visit this base with 2422 (Arbroath) Sqdn of the Air Training Corps back in the '60s while the USN were there & we were fed in their all ranks dining hall & treated to a drill display by the Marine detachment. Then again in 1971. while my girlfriend's sister was courting a USN guy we were in the Hideaway. Great memories & my first taste of Budweiser. While on a visit to Canada 15 years ago when we crossed the border from America on I95 the Canadian border guard turned out to be an ex-USN guy married to a Canadian & had served many years at Edzel.

[@GrahamInnes1]

Sounds like fun!

[@suggeymoto7917]

I’ve worked on the base since the Carnegie’s have taken it over got a great amount of behind the scenes access into some of the buildings and stuff is just frozen in time anything that wasn’t taken hasn’t been touched for years

[@chethemerc7841]

I used go here as a kid when my Dad was with the Ministry of Defence.

[@buzzabuzza3494]

Wow!! still intact as well let’s hope it stays that way

[@GrahamInnes1]

I dont think there is much chance of that.

[@buzzabuzza3494]

@@GrahamInnes1 yes I agree most of the old RAF airfields end up being developed so sad really.What I find extraordinary is the Battle of Britain was one of the most challenging times in British history every RAF base played it's part in the demise of the luftwaffe.So surely these sites should be preserved for future generations that's my opinion I'm guessing housing and commerce are more important.

[@GrahamInnes1]

@@buzzabuzza3494 Trouble is, there are just too many and nobody wants to pay to renovate and make them safe.

[@garystewart2512]

No much will last long we the carnagies

[@mrrey8937]

@@GrahamInnes1 yea, the google maps satellite images tells us that it is disappearing

[@garygentech]

Worked there for 10 years up until it closed. Would like to see inside Bld. 300 and 340 spent most of my time in there, if you think it's secure now should have seen it when the USN were in residence.

[@MattJD1111]

Hi Gary, do you know anything about the Calvine UFO incident?

[@garygentech]

@@MattJD1111 nothing at all, know a few things but not about that

[@MattJD1111]

@@garygentech thanks for replying mate. Anything you can’t explain?

[@webster1062]

Was there in 80's they had ten pin bowling alleys and indoor basketball courts any sign of them

[@GrahamInnes1]

Unfortunately I was not allowed into the buildings due to the asbestos etc. So I did not see any of those however I do know that there was a cinema and various other social venues.

[@webster1062]

It was so cool, that was way before we had bowling here, ye seen the cinema aswel. Was staying in Edzell with my school and touring the base seeing the planes and that was one of the days out.loved the place and all the American food.

[@leearnoult5194]

Terrific images. As when I was there in the mid-1960s, sunshine was not part of what I enjoyed about Scotland. Loved it, nevertheless. 🖖

[@GrahamInnes1]

Yes, I had been trying to get permission for 30 years to get on site. I got lucky. They really don't like visitors. All that history. It will allbbe gone soon. Glad you liked the shots.

[@gavinstirling7088]

Did you notice if the modern computer center (mainframes) building still existed? I visited in early 2000's and remember the security fence still intact and the power all still on.

[@GrahamInnes1]

I think that has gone. Many of the newer USN buildings were taken down.

[@mrrey8937]

How come you didnt take photos of the newer barracks?

[@GrahamInnes1]

The USN barracks were demolished very soon after USN moved out. Only those WAAF barracks are leFt from WW2

[@mrrey8937]

@@GrahamInnes1 WOW!! Those were nice barracks!! huge Lounge area, very nice place!! Thanks for the response, much appreciated!

[@GrahamInnes1]

@@mrrey8937 I think the USN were asked to leave it more or less as they found it. Although they did leave a few of their buildings, ie chapel, fire shed and ops building.

[@mrrey8937]

@@GrahamInnes1 I worked at the wullenweber antenna array site. Lived in the barracks but, moved out after a year to an old farm house with peacocks.

[@user-zh2cu2jk9j]

@@mrrey8937 Did you work in the basement?

[@MrAvant123]

What is so commercially sensitive going on here ?

[@GrahamInnes1]

Not sure because I was not allowed on to the old airfield site. However, from the internet over a year ago I found an article about an offshore company doing some R&D there. May be that or could just be the fact that there are masses of expensive offshore equipment stored there.