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Feb 20 2012, 08:18 PM
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QUOTE (Simon Kirby @ Feb 20 2012, 06:37 PM) Does anyone know what the posts on Greenham Common are, 18" high, in lines, some red-topped, some green-topped, around the runway area. Not in our regular doggie-walking area so they may have been there some time.
Thanks. I think they marked areas to keep off of during the bird nesting season?
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Feb 20 2012, 08:39 PM
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QUOTE (Ron @ Feb 20 2012, 08:18 PM) I think they marked areas to keep off of during the bird nesting season? Ah yes, thanks Ron, I have some recollection of that now, I'm sure that's it. Though I liked the other answers.
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Feb 20 2012, 09:24 PM
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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Feb 20 2012, 08:45 PM) It's possibly seasonal, but I'd thought there would have been information about it at the North Gate. Not sure, don't usually go in that way.
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Feb 20 2012, 11:02 PM
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Ah what a good read. How do you manage without the magic carpet anymore?
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Feb 22 2012, 01:54 PM
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QUOTE (Nothing Much @ Feb 20 2012, 11:17 PM) Actually I do have an old Bockhara. Laid on 200 year old stripped flooring. The only things that fly are the moths trying to get a leg over or under.
The pipework is there. It might not be used for gasoline or kerosene (Jet fuel). but it is maintained.What is it for? Conspiracy#4..... I think I will change my posting name.
I was up in Norfolk this morning, bitterly cold but wide open skies. The markers look like little gates but they run down the side of the A1065 for miles. ce Try http://www.linewatch.co.uk/map-PDF/map-GPSS.pdf
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Feb 22 2012, 09:52 PM
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QUOTE (JeffG @ Feb 22 2012, 08:28 PM) Have they appeared recently, or are they old port and starboard taxiway markers left over from flying days? The red and green colouring suggests that. I think they're newish. I rather think Ron was right and that they're something about keeping dogs out of areas for ground nesting birds.
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Feb 22 2012, 10:02 PM
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QUOTE (Simon Kirby @ Feb 22 2012, 09:52 PM) I think they're newish. I rather think Ron was right and that they're something about keeping dogs out of areas for ground nesting birds. If they are intended to keep dogs out I hope the dogs know, as thus far our small band of humans don't!!!!
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Feb 24 2012, 03:17 PM
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QUOTE (Nothing Much @ Feb 22 2012, 05:42 PM) Thanks for the link. OldNewburian. An Icle bitty pipe to Newbury/Greenham. Strange connections between Porton,Aldermaston.
I showed my son the links of MOD sites, well he knows everything.... said "move over dad"! types in gpss and shows sites I had never heard of and with google he could trace a pipe to a WW2 emergency base which is a pig farm now!
The 'surveyors', answer is probably correct despite my fancy for conspiracies. The pipes are there and care needs to be taken with a JCB. Maybe nesting birds...in the winter? ce If you look at Padworth on Google Earth and zoom in you will see all the storage tanks.
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Feb 24 2012, 04:08 PM
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QUOTE (Nothing Much @ Feb 22 2012, 10:19 PM) That certainly puts Homo Erectus in a different world to Dogus Dogus. NWN Reader.
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