The photo is of a map in the middle 1800s showing Scalm Park as we do not have a photo of the QX site at present. However, if you have every walked over to Scalm Wood you may have seen an odd brick hut stood on its own out in the fields. This is all that remains of the WW2 Hambleton QX site – a night time decoy airfield. The site is called Hambleton although it is not really within the village boundary. This building would have housed control gear and a generator, to power lights to simulate the flarepath of RAF Church Fenton. There ma have been painted markings for daytime, perhaps even canvas and plywood buildings and aircraft. The idea behind the Q and QX sites was to hopefully fool the Luftwaffe raid that were attacking the operational airfields and factories. Later SF (Special Fire) decoy sites used elaborate lighting and fires to simulate burning towns in the hope of drawing later waves of bombers to drop their bombs on the decoy fires. More elaborate Star Fish sites were developed with times lights simulating doors opening and closing, and lamps on rails and pulleys to look like cars and trams.