Felton Auxiliary Unit and OB

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This O.B. no longer exists it was demolished and used as land fill when a small quarry was filled in some years ago.

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The site although called Felton was in fact between Newton on the Moor and Swarland. It was close to a minor road that leads to Longframlington and close to Newton Hall. There is now a plantation of trees on the site. I was informed by a local man who was working in the area at the time of the O.B.s destruction that the quarry was filled with all types of rubbish before being landscaped which is when the O.B. went. It was claimed that there was still equipment and possibly a radio still inside when they cleared the site. I have not been able to confirm this though I have no reason to doubt it.

RAF Acklington and the East Coast main railway line are nearby; there is a main railway viaduct just north of Acklington at Morwick which may have been one of the patrols targets if the planned invasion had taken place.
     
The O.B. was built by the 184 (s) Tunnelling Company R.E.

The World War 2 map reference is qU651242 modern NU167 053

 Patrol/ Cell members (as far known) –

   W.B. Inglis
   PTE. G.H. Anderson
   A.    Hall
   A.    Smith
   A.T. Smith
   L/C H.S. Turnbull
   PTE. Wanlass

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