Watch Tower With A View: Former RAF Weapons Base Transformed Into Holiday Let | Forces TV

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A four-storey 40ft control tower on a former RAF weapons range has been transformed into an unlikely holiday let in Friskney, Lincolnshire. RAF Wainfleet is the famous site where pilots trained for the Dambuster mission and the Ministry of Defence developed the bouncing bomb during the Second World War. When the air base closed in 2010, local farmer Will Roughton bought the buildings, and felt he had to preserve the area's rich military history.

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Interviewed in this report are Area Manager Victoria Schofield and property owner Will Roughton.



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