EPW020480 ENGLAND (1928). Calshot Castle and Ower Lake, Calshot, from the north-east, 1928

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Title [EPW020480] Calshot Castle and Ower Lake, Calshot, from the north-east, 1928
Reference EPW020480
Date 16-March-1928
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Place name CALSHOT
Parish FAWLEY
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 448936, 102509
Longitude / Latitude -1.3052260003944, 50.819492788235
National Grid Reference SU489025

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CALSHOT CASTLE - built on Calshot Spit - Fawley, Hampshire SO45 1TW Grade 2* listed building - English Heritage Building ID: 143419 1540 - built by Henry VIII - as a circular blockhouse with a three storey central keep using stone from Beaulieu Abbey.

totoro
Sunday 12th of January 2014 02:38:54 PM
The naval base became RAF Calshot on 5 February 1922. It closed in 1961

MB
Sunday 14th of October 2012 08:00:24 PM
This has to be Calshot Naval Air Station, not shown on Ordnance Survey maps of the 1930s: presumably a sensitive military establishment. Not even the castle was shown, either

MB
Sunday 14th of October 2012 07:51:21 PM

User Comment Contributions

Calshot Spit, 19/05/2016

Class31
Monday 23rd of May 2016 12:45:47 PM
The naval base became RAF Calshot on 5 February 1922. It closed in 1961

MB
Wednesday 17th of December 2014 03:02:44 PM
The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS)flying base was opened on 29 March 1913. On the formation of the RAF, the merger of the RNAS with the Royal flying Corps (RFC), RAF Calshot became the HQ of 10 Group. The station survived WWI to became the School of Naval Co-operation & Air Navigation.

The history of the School of Naval Co-operation & Air Navigation is confused as it seems to have move back and forth across the Solent to Lee-on-Solent changing titles in the process.

The RAF High Speed Flight trained at Calshot for several months each year from 1927 to 1931 in preparation for th Schneider Trophy races.

Flying continued at Calshot until October 1953 when the Sunderlands departed leaving the base to marine craft until it was finally closed in May 1961.

Graham Yaxley
Wednesday 17th of December 2014 03:02:44 PM
Calshot Castle, 23/08/2009

Class31
Monday 10th of November 2014 04:05:49 PM
Calshot Castle, 23/08/2009

Class31
Monday 10th of November 2014 04:05:24 PM
Calshot Castle, 23/08/2009

Class31
Monday 10th of November 2014 04:04:57 PM
Calshot Castle, 23/08/2009

Class31
Monday 10th of November 2014 04:04:33 PM
Calshot Castle, 23/08/2009

Class31
Monday 10th of November 2014 04:04:10 PM
Calshot Castle, 23/08/2009

Class31
Monday 10th of November 2014 04:03:45 PM
Calshot Castle, 23/08/2009

Class31
Monday 10th of November 2014 04:03:21 PM
Calshot Castle, 23/08/2009

Class31
Monday 10th of November 2014 04:02:58 PM
Calshot Castle, 23/08/2009

Class31
Monday 10th of November 2014 04:02:34 PM
Calshot Castle, 23/08/2009

Class31
Monday 10th of November 2014 04:01:52 PM
Calshot Castle, 23/08/2009

Class31
Monday 10th of November 2014 04:01:27 PM
Calshot Castle, 23/08/2009

Class31
Monday 10th of November 2014 04:01:03 PM
Calshot Castle, 23/08/2009

Class31
Monday 10th of November 2014 04:00:42 PM
Calshot Castle, 23/08/2009

Class31
Monday 10th of November 2014 04:00:19 PM
Calshot Castle was built for Henry VIII in 1540. It is now owned by English Heritage. The naval air station was a centre for the operation of flying boats and anti-submarine warfare. Calshot Spit was also the venue for the Schneider Trophy flying race in which predecessors of the Supermarine Spitfire fighter competed

MB
Sunday 14th of October 2012 07:55:34 PM