Landham airfield trainer dome
The black domed building at Langham Airfield Dome Trainer is one of around 40 structures of this kind which were built during WWII. Only a few have survived and this one is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument. It stands on the site of the former Langham airfield and was used by the Royal Air Force to anti-aircraft gunners using film projection techniques. The first squadrons stationed there were 455 Royal Australian Air Force and 489 Royal New Zealand Air Force. It fell into disrepair after the war and none of the interior remains. In 1961, turkey farmer Bernard Matthews bought the land including the dome but donated the building and half-an-acre of surrounding land to the North Norfolk Historic Buildings Trust.
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Photo credit: © John Worrall / Alamy / Afripics
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