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The Early English-style brick Christ Church in Fairfield Road was just 23 years old at the time of this photograph.

It tapped the water from the Burgess Well (now under Fairfield Road car park) and released it in an open channel down the High Street.

Here we have a fine overview of the town centre against a backdrop of the Fairfield Horseshoe group of mountains.

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.

With the move to coeducation it was converted to a girls' boarding house called Fairfield in 1976.

It relocated to Fair Field, between upper Duke Street and the Burgess Well.

Here we have a fine overview of the town centre against a backdrop of the Fairfield Horseshoe group of mountains.

The open space beyond is the Fair Field, which was used for the two annual fairs.

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.

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.

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.