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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 ...Read more
A memory of Tranwell by
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 ...Read more
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Childhood
I lived at the base with my parents my father was inspector in the naval police we had a bungalow just inside the main gates. I went to school in bowness a bus picked us up and dropped us off. in the evenings I was allowed to ride my ...Read more
A memory of Anthorn in 1953 by
Zeals House
I was evacuated to Zeals during the war from London, to I think, Zeals House. I recall the airfield, and I remember a local pub, which I think had a yew tree outside. My folks and military members would drink and dance outside under the ...Read more
A memory of Zeals in 1940 by
Working Days Then Retirement
After attending Newton village school from the age of 5 to 14, I found employment at a place called Tholthorpe where a new airfield was being built. Being 12 miles from my home I had to use a bicycle to get ...Read more
A memory of Newton-on-Ouse in 1989 by
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 ...Read more
A memory of Greenford by
Winch Gliding With My Father
My father, Edward Wyatt, spent every spare moment he could flying his glider at Denham airfield. We lived in Higher Denham and used to get taken to the airfield many a Sunday. I was 6 in 1953, and I recall the taste of ...Read more
A memory of Denham in 1953 by
Where I Grew Up
play field at the top of Westway. The fun and games we had as kids up to 1946, helping those friendly German prisoners build fairfield housing estate. We moved to 43 Westway in about 1948, My farther Horace, Waterhouse. Mother ...Read more
A memory of Farsley in 1958 by
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, ...Read more
A memory of Watchfield by
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
A memory of Ickburgh Fields by
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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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