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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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Fairfields School
Is this caption right? 42064 seems right - this is the Board School established under Act of Parliament. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Leducation70.htm. I believe that John Arlott went there, and Ruth Ellis. My children ...Read more
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Fairfield House
I was at Fairfield house about 1963 i was five I remember mrs fisher.and I remember.that in the summer we used to have an afternoon sleep in the garden.I had such a wonderful time there .I remember we used to go to the beach and eat ...Read more
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My Memories Of Resolven.
The personal views of Resolven expressed in these pages reflect my own fond memories of Resolven, the Vale of Neath and its people. In 1953 I returned to the valley as a teenager, little did I know it was to become my home. I worked ...Read more
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Military Parachuting At Watchfield
I was in the RAF at Abingdon on two different postings during 1963/4 and 1967/69 and very often did detachments to the Parachute training school drop zone at Weston on the Green as the aircraft controller. In ...Read more
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Lympne Airport In The 50s
That plane was bright blue! As far as I can remember, the pilot was Polish - left over from the war. He used to keep the plane at the airport, and give stunning free acrobatic displays on bright sunny days. For special ...Read more
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Memories Of Raf Lichfield
My father was an officer in the RAF and was based in RAF Lichfield from 1954 - 1956. My brother and I went by bus to St. Christopher's School in Alrewas. The school building was on the side of the canal and from one ...Read more
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Raf Tern Hill And St Josephs College
From 1946 till 1951 we lived at RAF Tern Hill and every day my brother and I travelled by bus (Butters Bus Company as I remember!). We were dropped off near the lovely ivy-covered hotel in the square, and ...Read more
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Fairfield House Boarding School
I was at Fairfield House Broadstairs boarding school early 60’s. I remember Mrs Ansell. Lovely lady. Mary Kennedy, Wendy Giles, Diane, Jasmine Raybold. We had a visit from Lady Mountbatten. I stayed up late in the ...Read more
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Cullerne Farm Caravan Site Around 1958
Cullerne Farm Caravan Site was owned by Willy Bichen, farmer of Blinkbonny, Brodie. The caravans made use of the old hard standings, for part of the farmlands had been an airfield. There was small brook where ...Read more
A memory of Findhorn
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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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