Tattershall Castle & Thorpe Camp

Very overcast this morning. By the time we were ready to go out it was raining quite heavily. 

We went to Tattershall Castle, mainly because the last time we were there Maddy forgot to get her National Trust passport stamped. 

There were lots of Knights in Armour and fighting displays planned for the day but that had all been moved inside the castle due to the rain. 

We spent an hour listening to a talk about armour and how to put it on which was very entertaining. 

On the way back to the car we nipped into the church for a cuppa and a slice of flap jack. 

We went to Thorpe Camp Visitor Centre in Tattershall Thorpe. The centre was formally part of number one communal site, RAF Woodall spa and was built in 1940 with the planned lifespan of only 10 years. 

At the end of the war, when the RAF vacated the site it became a target for squaters and was taken over by the Horncastle Rural District Council who converted it into temporary housing for which it was used until the early 1960s. 

By 1987 the site was completely derelict an overgrown. Part of it came with the area acquired by the woodland trust when they purchased the adjacent Carr woods. The trust planned to demolish the buildings which led to the formation of the Thorpe Camp Preservation Group to restore the site and create a visitor centre depicting the story of RAF Woodall spa and it squadrons together with civilian life in Lincolnshire during World War II.

Then it was back to the van for tea and chill. It finally stopped raining about 6pm.