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𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗞 𝗢𝗡 𝗛𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬 𝗢𝗙 𝗥𝗔𝗙 𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗧 𝗞𝗜𝗥𝗞𝗕𝗬 - 𝟭𝟮 𝗡𝗢𝗩 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗵 of the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre is to hold a presentation entitled '𝗔 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗔𝗙 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗞𝗶𝗿𝗸𝗯𝘆' at the Town Hall, Main Road, New Bolingbroke, Lincs PE22 7LD on 𝗧𝘂𝗲 𝟭𝟮𝘁𝗵 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 from 7:30pm-9:15pm. Admission is just £4 on the door. The Town Hall is a white building with three large arched windows facing the Main Road (B1183 'Seven Mile Straight') and is signposted from it.

memories,a place where i have done my pilot studies cab air academy back in the 2000.

Lovely and respectful work. Thank you.

So happy to see your lovely videos back! I was afraid you had disappeared from youtube like others lately!

This would be an ideal location for a new seat of government, new parliament building, accommodation for MP's instead of us paying for second homes, PM's and ministers residences. Close to rail network, M1 and an active airfield.

Goated raf base

I lived on the nature reserve until I was 6. I remember my Dad having to knockdown some of the old ammunition bunkers as they were unstable. I also remember Dad finding a huge cannon round in the early 90's. Not been back for years, not sure whats still left of the airfield. Nice little video

Thank you for your videos. They are put together beautifully and very informative. Twinwood is a very special place and the museum is fantastic, an absolute credit to the skill and knowledge of the dedicated volunteers who run it. Well worth a visit.

The Spitfire gate guardian called The City of Winchester is now flying and based at Duxford. I remember the Welsh Nationalists painted Yanks Go Home on the walkway bridge over the main road. Also the garden paths to the airforce houses had under path heating. Lastly there was a petrol station just along the A548 called the Plane Tree Garage that had a bi plane on the forecourt and a tree, may have been an African Plain Tree.

A tribute to the American flying men who gave their young lives…to defend freedom in Europe 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏God Bless America 🇺🇸 I was born 1958 in Sudbury, Suffolk…I’ll appreciate my whole life for the great American contribution and the sacrifice…to win the WWII.

My uncle was lost with 186sqn on the night of February 3rd 4th 1945. Flying officer John Ross Air bomber (bomb aimer) Avro lancaster Hk688 XY @W . They came down at Westerfield am wauld 3 miles from castrop Rauxel as they were on the run in to attack the Hansa Benzol plant at Dortmund. The whole crew were killed. His pilot was flt ltnt E G hunt. Lest we forget.

A worthwhile museum to visit, with an incredible history, playing a very important part in our defence in world war 2, and definately worth a visit! A very fitting tribute to all who worked there, and gave they're all for our freedom today!

When I lived in Long Clawson, Langar airfield was known locally as Avro's The hangars on the opposite side of the Harby-Langar road serviced Shackletons (Late 60's, early 70s)

Where's the Leiston Abbey ruins relative to the airfield? I lived in Abbey Lodge for a short while in the late 70s.

as a boy lived near there ,great history

amazing to see how it changed so much but so little at the same time! huge shame they’ve sold the airfield now

So the M62 was built on the old runway..

I used to live at the back of RAF Kenley, a lot of fond memories walking round the airfield and the common there.

Where did you get the 1940's aerial photo? I live a few miles from the former RAF Ludham, and have a few photos of the airfield that I have taken over the last four or five years if you are interested.

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Great video, I flew from Burtonwood as a boy in gliders with the air cadets and watched the whole place die from the motorway week after week.

Wishing you a very happy D-Day 80th!

My father was in the RAF and was seconded to Burtonwood around 1943. He told me that one night he woke to find that the rest of his 'hut' had pushed his bed onto the runway and it was gently snowing on him. He had nothing but admiration for the efficiency of the USAAF operation.

I was there from1982 to1986 with 38 GroupTCW and also at 81U RAF Bampton Castle.

I was 7 years old at that time living on Lower Higham Road just at the bottom of the hill about a mile from the airport I can remember walking up Thong Lane to the guards at the airport

Literally 5min from my home,surrounded by these sadly mostly forgotten airfields.🇺🇲🇬🇧

My dad was a bombardier with the 493rd. Capt George J. Field, Jr. Completed his 30 missions and received his "Lucky Bastards" certificate, which is on my office wall. First mission D-Day; final Christmas Day 1945. Stayed on as a training officer until the end of the war. Flew on one of the Operation Chow Hound missions to Holland, which dropped food to the starving Dutch.

Identifiable as a USAF base by the golf course to the WSW of the base. :)

I visited St Wilfrids Chapel today which stands next to what would have been the NE end of the main runway. As the film says, there is nothing visible to suggest that this site ever had an operational airfield on it but if you look over the churchyard wall you can maybe visualise the Spitfires and Typhoons that were based here. RIP to those that left and did not return.

remember playing up there in the mid 90s only small part is left

Lovely work, thank you. On a minor point, should it not be 'antennae', not 'antennas'?

Thanks very much for this.

Wasn't FIDO Fog Intensive, not investigation?

And it's now a housing estate!

been there multiple times as i live nearby and found about 30 of the original buildings all scattered through the woods. cool place

I think my dad was a Pilot Officer in the RAF flying transport aircraft out of RAF Ashfield in the early 1950's. I also think he was associated with the RAF REGIMENT about this time too.Does anyone know much about what happened at the airfield in the 1950's...particularly early 1950's?

My base will miss you

Ahh back in the day where i wish i knew what life was about. My old stomping ground .i now work in the hangar

I grew up locally in the 60's but was unaware of the base and history until I joined the ATC, 1330 sqdn, in the early 70's. I was a staff cadet there with 635 Gliding School for a few years up until the M62 motorway was built along the main runway. Happy days, racing landrovers all over the base, setting up the winches and helping out with the gliding operations. The school was based in the old MT section and most of the airfield infrastructure was still intact, sadly all gone now. A great book by Aldon P Ferguson details the history, plus a follow up book of photographs tells the story and highlights the scale of the airfield, wonderful stuff. Happy days.

I used to live in Egerton near Pluckley and this was the field often mistaken for Headcorn. If I remember rightly, there were sections of psp which could still be found littered around the area. I know local after the war had used drop tanks as boats etc

10 minutes away from me and a great place to explore

My uncle, Willis Steburg, was a Sergeant with the 44th Bomb Group based at Shipdham. He was a ball turret gunner on a B-24called "Toad." He flew 22 combat missions, and had 2 confirmed kills. He was shot down in April 1944 during a raid on a railroad marshalling yard near the French/Swiss border. He was one of 3 men that bailed out, the last to go. One of the waist gunners reached a wooded hilly area and evaded capture. My uncle was badly burned, and the tail gunner had a broken ankle, so they could not evade. They were sent to a Luftwaffe hospital for treatment. after they recovered, they were sent to a POW camp in Poland. They were liberated by the British army in March 1945. I lived with him the first three years of my life until my dad could afford to buy his own home. As I got older I became very interested in WW2, especially the air campaign. But my uncle would never discuss the war, and what he did. I guess he wanted to forget it. He passed away in 1991at 73.I had hoped one day to visit RAF Shipdham as a tribute to him. I'm sad at the thought that will never happen now.

I live near three old airfields, Saltby, North Witham, and Dalby. Have you done a video on these fields?

Nothing left but ghosts.

You wouldn't know it was even there, not to mention it was dismantled very quickly

Have you looked at RAF Headcorn (Kent) as opposed to RAF Lashenden (which is now Headcorn airfield!) Google Earth has WW2 aerial photographs of the airfield which is to the NE of Bedlam Lane, opposite the war memorial to the Canadians. Apologies if you already covered this, just saw this today.

I come from Kent but now live in Newmarket in Suffolk. A few years back there was a gathering of Spitfires at RAF Duxford, getting ready for a fly past at Buckingham Palace. The sound and volume of the 8 or 10 engines from 12 miles away was quite something. I've often wondered what the sounds would have been like during the War when hundreds of bombers and fighters would have been gathering for a raid. God bless them all. And thank you for this video!

RAF Upper Hayford also

My late Mum was stationed at Wethersfield for a while in early 1945 No 38 Group Royal Air Force. She saw her 2nd cousin briefly there, he was part of Operation Varsity airborne crossing of the Rhine March 1945.

I was stationed at Raynham from 1992 until closure. I was one of two station medics. I had a great time at Raynham. The best first tour I could have hoped for. Happy days.