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Royal Air Force Hornchurch, or more simply RAF Hornchurch, is a former Royal Air Force sector station in the parish of Hornchurch, Essex, located to the southeast of Romford. The airfield was known as
A Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2c similar to those that flew from Sutton's Farm in 1915 and 1916
Lt. William Leefe Robinson (left) and Lt. Wulstan Tempest, both of whom shot down enemy airships.
Squadron Leader Don Finlay and his Supermarine Spitfire at RAF Hornchurch in January 1941
Astra House, the former Officers Mess, now a doctors' surgery
British hardened field defences of World War II were small fortified structures constructed as a part of British anti-invasion preparations. Included in the definition of "hardened field defences" are
RAF Hornchurch
…building, which was full of children at the time. A number of pillboxes, command bunkers and gun positions, together with the largest number of surviving Tett Turrets in England, still exist within the boundaries of the former airfield and can be seen on the Eastern edge of the country park. RAF Hornchurch artefacts…
Hexagonal pillbox (Type 22)
Winston Churchill helps to build a pillbox at Poole in July 1940.
Soldiers relax inside a Type 28 pillbox in October 1940.
Pillbox where some of the original brick shuttering and reinforced concrete has fallen away to reveal the internal network of rebars.