Trecwn - aerial views RNAD Trecwn

Here are 3 lovely images of the arms depot at RNAD Trecwn taken from the air.

The first one shows the main entrance to the depot at it’s southern end. Looking at the cars in the staff carpark it was probably taken some time in the mid to late 1950’s. At the bottom right of the image can be seen the main railway line into the valley, leading to the railway sidings. The buildings to both sides of the railway sidings included a number of specialist workshops and storage facilities, there were no live explosives handled in this area.

The second image shows the workshops and stores buildings in more detail. The building at the bottom right with the tall chimneys was the southern boiler house which supplied steam to most of the buildings seen here. It was in this area that the narrow gauge railway system started, it extended right up the north end of the site.

The third image shows the red area where live explosives were handled and stored, everything from .303 Rifle bullets to 1 Thousand pound bombs were processed here and stored in 58 Magazines built into each side of the valley, If you zoom in you can see a number of the tunnel entrances quite clearly. A lot of the smaller buildings have blast walls surrounding them. The complex extended further north from this photo to the north end Boiler House and security gates.

It was such a huge loss to the area when the depot closed. Many vital skills were lost for ever as well as the economic loss to the community.