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Holton Heath is a naval base that was used to make munitions in the second world war many of the buildings it was interesting to walk around the base and think about the people who would have passed through here: soldiers, workers, the impact it had on them and how seeing the base now would impact them.

Sopley:

Sopley army camp was an RAF radar base in the second world war.

After the base was decommissioned it sat unused for some time before being adapted and used to house Vietnamese refugees. It was strange to walk around the hastily build and badly adapted buildings i could sense how vulnerable the people staying there must have felt i think the objects and traces they had left behind really brought home the fact that people had lived here.

both bases also have another use at the present, parts of both sites are used as industrial estates where buildings that are still in good enough condition are rented out. Reuse of buildings for different things and by different people over time seems to be a reoccurring theme.