Pyestock Diaries

After a chance meeting with an ex-employee of Pyestock my interest was finally further galvanised. I started making plans to return to the site, to fully document and photograph it, and to try and prove myself wrong after my article in the Construction History Society newsletter. By now, I was finishing various parts of my other sites and spending evenings working through my snapshots of Rauceby (working out locations and cutting and pasting maps). My work at Rauceby was becoming a dry run for the eventual full-on assault at Pyestock: I was learning what worked, what didn’t, and how to approach the whole situation.

By now, the end of the year beckoned, and the weather was poor. I wanted to wait until the start of the new year to begin work again on Pyestock and with media commitments in January it looked like I’d be making plans for February. Tom was also chewing at the bit, having wanted to return for a long time.

"Tom, do you know that utterly boring site with the pipes?"
"The blue ones?"
"Yes. It’s time we went back."
"Excellent!"

And despite pictures of this plane appearing for months, many still don't know where it is! (Main Stores, view north west) 31|03|07 © Simon Cornwell 2007