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Aircraft Crashes In The Second World War In Stramshall And Uttoxeter
I was trying to remember the number of crashed aircraft I had seen, and, in another life, dealt with. Despite the closeness of many airfields, Church Broughton being the ...Read more
A memory of Stramshall by
Butchers Shop, Wheeler Street
BUTCHERS SHOP, WITLEY. My mother and father ran the butchers shop in Wheeler Street, Doris and Mick McCullough, from 1936 to 1953. I remember the sweet shop next door (Fairfields) and the Co-op opposite (now Witley ...Read more
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Barkingside As It Was From 1937 1950
I lived in Barkingside from 1937 - 1950. I was 5 whan we moved to Merlin Grove from Forest Gate. There were fields and woods within a few minutes walk, sadly built over now. The library was a shop on the ...Read more
A memory of Barkingside in 1940 by
Bassingbourn Airfield
A relative of mine worked on the airfield for a private contractor until his death in 1940. His name was George Fynn, of Rainham in Essex. He was riding pillion on a motor bike whan they had a head on with an R.A.F. truck near the airfield. Would anyone know of this person?
A memory of Royston in 1930 by
Bicycles And A Happy Hunting Ground.
Being the offspring of parents otherwise engaged, and only partially supervised by a succession of Nannies, whose only concern was that we should be clean and respectably dressed when we got up to mischief, ...Read more
A memory of New Milton in 1950 by
Blackbushe 1940s 1970s
I first visited Hartfordbridge Flats, as the area was originally known, in 1949, when I lived at Farnborough. I too remember seeing various WWII aircraft on the site and the runway which extended southwards ...Read more
A memory of Blackbushe Airport by
Boreham Airfield
I lived on the airfield from 1950 to 1956 and I remember it well. We lived in nissen huts that had been used by the Americans during the war. I attended Boreham school and we had to get on a Boons bus to get there. Has ...Read more
A memory of Boreham in 1950 by
Boreham School
Our family the Portways lived in Boreham from 1926 when our dad Alf moved with his family from Howe street Great Waltham. Our parents met in the RAF and married in 1945. Our mum Pat lived on Boreham airfield then my sister was ...Read more
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Borham Airfeild
We used to live on Borham Airfield when I was four until eight. They were nissan huts made of corugated iron, they had no baths but they had electric. We had to have a tin bath hanging outside. T think Robert Mitchum the ...Read more
A memory of Boreham in 1951 by
Bristol, Lulsgate Airport History
After the war, on April 14th 1946, flying training ceased, and Lulsgate Bottom was abandoned by the RAF in October. The airfield was used by Bristol Gliding Club during the next ten years, but the accommodation ...Read more
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A temporary World War Two fighter airfield was constructed at Chailey in 1943, with grass runways.
Nearby is a memorial to a World War Two fighter airfield, which was used by the American Air Force.
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 war Scotch Farm was taken over by the RAF, and developed as an airfield from October 1941.
The three men wearing peaked caps (centre right) could well be airmen from one of several nearby airfields; one of them, Hemswell, is now a very large antiques centre.
The three men wearing peaked caps (centre right) could well be airmen from one of several nearby airfields; one of them, Hemswell, is now a very large antiques centre.
Local airfields were heavily used for training pilots, while the city's factories turned over to the production of everything from rations to parachutes and torpedo nets.
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.
Here we have a fine overview of the town centre against a backdrop of the Fairfield Horseshoe group of mountains.
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