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During the Second World War she kept open house for the RAF officers stationed at the nearby airfield at Wyton, and arranged musical and literary evenings.
During the last war a small airfield was built in Carnaby; it was in use up to 1963, by which time it stored intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The wartime airfield was over to the left.
Nearby is a memorial to a World War Two fighter airfield, which was used by the American Air Force.
A temporary World War Two fighter airfield was constructed at Chailey in 1943, with grass runways.
Nearby is a memorial to a World War Two fighter airfield, which was used by the American Air Force.
During the Second World War, Folly Hill, which lies just outside the village, was the site of an airfield, with Wellington bombers based here.
During the war Scotch Farm was taken over by the RAF, and developed as an airfield from October 1941.
The three men wearing peaked caps (centre right) could well be airmen from one of several nearby airfields; one of them, Hemswell, is now a very large antiques centre.
The three men wearing peaked caps (centre right) could well be airmen from one of several nearby airfields; one of them, Hemswell, is now a very large antiques centre.
Local airfields were heavily used for training pilots, while the city's factories turned over to the production of everything from rations to parachutes and torpedo nets.
A total contrast is Charlcombe, a tiny hamlet on a minor road a mere half mile north of the Bath suburb of Fairfield Park.
A rather flowery title for a small shopping development of the late 1950s on the Fairfield Estate, away to the east of the town's main shopping street.
Here we have a fine overview of the town centre against a backdrop of the Fairfield Horseshoe group of mountains.
