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Old Dec 1, 2007 | 05:48 PM
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this area is greyed out on google maps please?
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Old Dec 1, 2007 | 05:51 PM
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Im not sure... Its a bit of a grey area realy...
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Old Dec 1, 2007 | 05:52 PM
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Im not sure... Its a bit of a grey area realy...
pmsl i knew someone would
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Old Dec 1, 2007 | 05:53 PM
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MOD or secret governemnt place maybe?
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Old Dec 1, 2007 | 05:53 PM
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Looks like a shady part of town
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Old Dec 1, 2007 | 05:54 PM
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MOD or secret governemnt place maybe?
im pretty sure its neither
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Old Dec 1, 2007 | 05:55 PM
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PastyKing, with a post like this you were asking for a pisstake! lol
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MOD or secret governemnt place maybe?
im pretty sure its neither
archeological site of interest?
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Old Dec 1, 2007 | 05:57 PM
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MOD or secret governemnt place maybe?
im pretty sure its neither
archeological site of interest?
in which case im towing a bobcat down tomoz with my micra to dig it up and act like tony robinson
time team time
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Old Dec 1, 2007 | 05:58 PM
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Growing G.M crops?

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Old Dec 1, 2007 | 05:59 PM
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MOD or secret governemnt place maybe?
im pretty sure its neither
archeological site of interest?
in which case im towing a bobcat down tomoz with my micra to dig it up and act like tony robinson
time team time
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Old Dec 1, 2007 | 05:59 PM
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Where 95% of britains blackcurrants make it.
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Maybe its just a rain cloud?
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Maybe its just a rain cloud?
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Old Dec 1, 2007 | 06:08 PM
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at some of these replys

Ive honestly no idea though
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Track due north from there and it's Lakenheath, they've "greyed" out the wrong bit.

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Old Dec 1, 2007 | 06:34 PM
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Track due north from there and it's Lakenheath, they've "greyed" out the wrong bit.

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PMSL this would of been better in the muppet room after some of these reponses!!
yeh its not a million miles from lakenheath, infact i know lakenheath failry well travel through it about 10 times a week
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Old Dec 1, 2007 | 06:39 PM
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i would say either GM crops or one of those government sites where they grow wacky bacco
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it's just not been updated on the maps
our place was greyed out as well, and all it was was a field next to a railway line
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heh look at the plane on the runway at lakenheath got a fook off sattelite dish on it or sommat
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Originally Posted by dojj
our place was greyed out as well, and all it was was a field next to a railway line
That's what they hoped you would think!
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Old Dec 1, 2007 | 10:42 PM
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e3 sentry at lakenheath by the looks of it
im sure if you go look at raf waddington,lincs youll see some there too
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Old Dec 1, 2007 | 10:44 PM
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yep theres 2 at waddington ive just seen
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our place was greyed out as well, and all it was was a field next to a railway line
That's what they hoped you would think!
it's a field, you can go there and stand there and there is nothing

w7 2qa and you'll see what i'm on about, it's just fields and footie pitches
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Old Dec 2, 2007 | 04:20 PM
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our place was greyed out as well, and all it was was a field next to a railway line
That's what they hoped you would think!
it's a field, you can go there and stand there and there is nothing

w7 2qa and you'll see what i'm on about, it's just fields and footie pitches
Camouflage at its very best
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Old Dec 2, 2007 | 04:26 PM
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yer how cool at raf waddington,lincs u can c 2 of those radardome things an f4 not far away, a vulcan on the otherside of the airfield and a dc10 i think near the middle of the field !

Any1 know of anyother that r good 2 look at on google?
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Old Dec 2, 2007 | 04:32 PM
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is lakenheath a us base or a raf one ? There r loads of fighters on desplay on that base dint think the raf had many!
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Old Dec 3, 2007 | 12:37 AM
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bbspolo
lakenheath is a US airbase
the RAF has a fair few fast jets,
what planet you been on!
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