Organised by The Landmark TrustRAF Ibsley played a crucial role in the fight against Hitler's invasion of Europe. From its runways airmen flew out into hostile skies to defend Britain. With your support we can save this inspirational surviving wartime building.
RAF Ibsley Watch Office once played a crucial part in Britain’s fight against the dark forces of Hitler’s planned invasion. The Control Tower at the former Second World War airfield in the New Forest now stands derelict and in peril.
From its runways, between 1941 and 1944, both RAF and USAAF airmen flew out into hostile skies to defend Britain with great courage and at huge personal cost.
The Watch Office itself is a rare surviving example of its type, with a Meteorological Section, large Crittall windows and a concrete viewing balcony. Its survival is remarkable, but it is in a state of extreme dereliction.
With your help we can still bring this important fragment of our wartime history back from the brink of collapse, remembering the brave people who once worked and flew here.
£30 would provide a tin of paint to replicate the wartime decorative scheme.
£60 could support the sensitive repair of crumbling and damaged brickwork.
£125 could support repairs to the unique concrete viewing balcony.
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