That depends on your perspective. The airfield was built on farm land that was property of the local farm and 'borrowed' by the MOD for emergency use during WW2. When the MOD no longer needed the airfield, they handed the land back to the farm that it belonged to. The tower stood out into the field and farmer wanted his field back to crow crops. An abandoned control tower is no use as an agricultural buliding If you are in the business of demolition and someone contracts you for a job, it's not pointless if you are getting paid to do that job. The tower was of no importance back then, there were literally hundreds of them scattered across the UK at the time. The demolition rubble from the tower was used as hardcore for new building projects in the local area. One could argue that you making that comment or me responding to your comment is a pointless exercise, it's just a matter of perspective.

@@joeslacks I think you will find the land was a compulsory purchase and the farmers or land owners were paid on average £20 per acre plus they were allowed to still farm the land some still planting crops up to the runways yea the buildings were handed back after hostilities finish but these could be sold back to the MOD especially if they wanted the hardcore etc for the building of motorways etc you only have to look at the destruction caused by the St Ives and gravel company. I thought it would have been more profitable to have destroyed the tower with machinery instead of the pointless charade which was the attempted demolition by explosives.

I think so, it was basically an anti tank round.