Chocks away!

I'd not visited Ibsleys World War 2 control tower in years and was surprised by what I found.  The last time I was here it was dilapidated, but open and accessible.  Not anymore. The ground floor windows are all blocked in and a metal gate bars you from access, although a level of concrete blocks had been removed from one window and with some difficulty, and a stack of concrete blocks, I managed to squeeze through.  The inside, like the outside had become a canvass for graffiti artists, who sadly had left all manner of detritus behind them, doing themselves and their creed no favours. Though, some of the graffiti was quite good, particularly the Churchill piece in the picture, most wasn't more than tagging or bollocks.  That's just how it goes. What I found sad wasn't the actions of a few youth, but that the building has been left to fall further into dilapidation.  An indictment of our varied and fickle attitudes towards our history and heritage, bearing in mind, this was a Battle of Britain Airfield, a period of our history that is made so much of when desired and yet we do little to preserve relics of that period.