When It Was An Aerodrome !
A Memory of Southend Airport.
Ok, so it may have been a little later than 1955, but we used to live in Southbourne Grove, and used to thrash our bicycles across the fields (over the arterial road) and make our way to the back of the airport where the old engines were laid out in rows. If we were lucky, we could creep about amongst them without being caught!
Probably my earliest memory was seeing the Tiger Moths flying around, some doing aerobatics(!) I remember being taken, as a very little boy, to see one that had come down upside down in the field at the end of the road where the shops were - Bridgewater Drive? I forget the names of the roads, it was a lifetime ago.
I wish that I had been old enough to fly in one of those beautiful aeroplanes! Now all we can do is book a joy ride in one for a treat.
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