What has recently happened to Northolt is very regrettable. I always used to have a pang of nostalgia when passing it..the BoB hangars, the guard room entrance, and the brick buildings could transport one back 70 years with a bit of imagination…in the last year or so, it has turned into something resembling an out-of-town industrial area/shopping complex.

My only consolation is that every day, I can look at the country mansion into which the Northolt Operations room was dispersed to during the Battle. In those days it was in extensive grounds and when I dug my garden over I found an old RAF cap badge. The house was also requisitioned by the Americans as part of D-Day planning. Interesting past….