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WAAF Portreath and it's underground Bunkers

The former WAAF (Women's Auxiliary Air Force) base at Cambrose. The site was used for barracks, messes and offices for personnel working at the nearby Portreath airfield during, and after the WW2. More than 30 years after the site was last surveyed, ivy and undergrowth has been cleared out revealing a historic entrance to the hidden underground air raid shelters of a World War Two base. Originally, the site contained 14 barrack blocks, offices, workshops and messes predominantly comprised of Nissen huts, a prefabricated steel structure originally for military use. As well as the structures above the ground, there were two underground shelters and a blast shelter. In 1992, Cornwall Archaeological Unit surveyed the site and found "nearly all buildings have been dismantled" and their materials (walls, roofs, internal fittings etc) removed from the site. Only their neatly leveled platforms remained with the only above-ground structures surviving being the ivy-clad blast shields and entrance cowls of the three air-raid shelters.