Remaining WW2 Relics

 Situated on the corner of Coldicutt Street and Gosbrook Road in Caversham, Reading. 

Star Road WW2 Shadow Factory, Caversham It was part of the Reading group that produced spitfires in WW2, eventually employing 1600 people, mainly women. At Star Road fuselages were fitted out and engines installed prior to final assembly at Henley Shadow Factory on the Wargrave Road and latterly Aldermaston. Though mainly used by the USAF, the Ministry of Aircraft Production (MAP) built an assembly hanger for Vickers just south of the airfield in the site now known as Hangar Road (part of the old AWRE housing estate).

Type 28A Pillbox tucked away in the tree line at Pincents Hill part of the GHQ Line (General Headquarters Line) which ran from Bristol to Reading. Which looks to have been lived in at some point. 

Situated on the Oxford Road next to the old Roebuck Pub and Tilehurst Station on the railway embankment. 

Bishopwood Camp Ruins - Sonning Common/Gallowstree Common A Former WW2 evacuee camp, in the photo below is the steps which would have lead to the wooden huts which have now rotted away due to neglect over the decades. On the site several steps still remain in place, two chimneys still standing strong, a sunken air raid shelter which has been burnt out by vandals and a sewage works building for the camp just on the other side of the footpath which runs in between the former camp. At Bishopwood Camp in the 1960s early 1970s they cleared a lot of the huts eventually but six were still standing with people living in them for quite a long time. The concrete steps which remain on the site till this day are apparently not the original ones, they are replacements as the wooden ones rotted away when the huts were still being lived in 10-20 years after World War Two. (Basically had to replace them) Students from a London orphanage were moved to Bishopwood Camp before it was relocated to Camberle

Built as a WW2 Evacuee Camp.  Kennylands Camp was very much similar to Bishopwoods with wooden shack huts scattered across the fields. These days not much remains of Kennylands Camp except a Air Raid Shelter which is filled from floor to ceiling with junk dumped, and a building further back on the fields which is now known as Kennylands Gym. Evacuees from Ilford arriving in Sonning. Kennylands Camp School 1940. A specially erected boarding school for evacuees.

 A brick above ground air raid shelter situated in the car park of the Three Tuns Pub on the Wokingham Road. Bricked up no access

Henley Shadow Factory and Armed Forces HQ Built as a WWII shadow factory, which manufactured aircraft components. At one time it was the AFHQ for London. The bunker is currently being used for archive storage. The Underground Factory ran by Sir George Godfrey and Partners making hydraulics and gearbox assemblies for the Phillips Master trainer. 30'000 sq ft of manufacturing space. Surface buildings ran as a private engineering works until early 1980's.   Underground space became a covert Army Communication Centre during Cold War. The Wargrave Road, Henley site, I believe it was tied in as a aircraft factory with Vincent's Motor Works on Station Road in Reading. Where the subways and underground space were used to make parts which were then sent to this place for assembly. Main Entrance building (Which looks to have been modified since it was sold and repurposed)                  Original Plans of the tunnels  Other entrance tucked away in some woodlands over near Park House