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Walking
I used to walk through Tranwell Woods all the time but I can't now because I am disabled now and the ground is uneven so it is hard for me to walk through - but it is a nice walk if you're not disabled like me. There's a lot of history in ...Read more
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Great Leighs
we moved from Borham airfield just across a cornfield to a thatched cottage, the walls were wattle and daub which a farmer let out to farm workers normally, It had no electricity, flush toilet , bathroom, but it had heaps of room and ...Read more
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Wood End School
My parents had a ground floor flat in Wood End Lane, and my father worked in a reserved occupation at AEC in Southall. In late 1940, my mother was pregnant with me, and she went to stay with her brother in Durham, wher I was born. I was ...Read more
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Watchfield/Naafi/Aerodrome Notes
This was the NAAFI shop that served the military quarters at Watchfield, which housed the then many miltary and civilian staff of the Royal Military College of Science, and some of the students at the college, many ...Read more
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Wartime In Ickburgh Fields
I was evacuated with my mother to a back to back semi-detached flint cottage situated in a clearing in the pine forests. There was no sanitation or running water or electricity. There was a tiny kitchen with a black ...Read more
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Tilehurst 1960s
I was born at 4 Juniper Way, Tilehurst 1962. I lived there until I was 9. I have such warm memories of that time although my memories appear more like snapshots as I was so young I remember some sounds of that time that have stayed ...Read more
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Swindon 1957 To 1966
We moved to Swindon in 1957 from London (Wimbledon, actually) when my dad, a skilled engineer, got a job at Vickers Armstrongs at South Marston, with a brand new council house thrown in. In those post-war austerity days there was no ...Read more
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Star Brush Factory
We lived in a council house adjacent to the Star Brush factory where my father worked for some years before we moved to Peppard. While our house was very modern by some standards, we had no electricity for some years, but we did ...Read more
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South East Englands Best Airport Site!
As a small boy in the 1950s I would be taken to see the aircraft at Blackbushe, then London's second airport. Blackbushe was London Heathrow's main fog diversion as it always has been one of the most ...Read more
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Skelton Primary School, Near York
I was at school there from 1956 to 1963, first at the Old Primary School then the new one with Head Mistress Miss E Watson and her elder sister, 'tremendous old school' method teachers. I lived at ...Read more
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This was one of the many Bomber Command airfields built in Lincolnshire during those fateful days.
This was one of the many Bomber Command airfields built in Lincolnshire during those fateful days.
A small market town of medieval origin where the Fens meet Breckland, Mildenhall gained an airfield between the wars, the starting point for many famous air races.
Luton's gas company made tar for airfield runways.
The high plateau of the Cotswolds was home to many airfields brought into service during the conflict.
Memories of the Second World War are rekindled when anniversaries are commemorated at the nearby airfield.
Every year up to 2002 a special service has been held in the parish church for the Pathfinder Squadrons which flew from Warboys airfield in the Second World War.
In the Second World War the airfield played an important role in the Battle of Britain.
One associates Benson with its RAF station and airfield, built in 1937.
Middle Wallop is a village of at least twenty-six houses with a garage, a pub and an army airfield.
Heston, too, had early links with air travel; it was at one time the nearest airfield to central London.
The nearby airfield was used in World War II for bombers and then for training, with the 39 Regiment of Royal Engineers stationed here from 1966 onwards.
Close by is Brooklands, where there was once a famous motor-racing circuit, an airfield and aviation factories.
This view shows the village of Brockworth, and what is now the old ICI site and airfield.
Known today for the nearby open prison situated on an old RAF camp, Eastchurch's claim to fame in earlier days was that it was the site of the first British airfield.
To the north-east lies the Second World War airfield which has been the centre for army flying since 1958.
During World War II the Kings Head was a popular watering-hole for airmen based at the nearby North Weald airfield.
The wartime airfield was over to the left.
The airfield was an important centre during the war, and was in use until the mid 1990s.
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 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.
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