These two films show Jack Currie examining various buildings, supposedly at RAF Wikenby.
Is there anything left at Wickenby to see and when in the area are there any other places to visit (legally) that show
remnants of the old bomber bases?
I found a stretch of peri track near RAF Metheringham that still exists.
By: hampden98 - 21st May 2015 at 17:24
Plenty. How many do you want.
The obvious choice is East Kirkby. But there are many more. Around here I can think of Parham, Seething, Thorpe Abbots, Rougham, Lavenham, etc., etc.
Moggy
I was thinking of things that are not in a museum context.
Part of a runway now a school car park. An old maintenance shed now a bike repair yard. That sort of thing.
To stumble across on a sunny evening.
By: Dave Homewood - 21st May 2015 at 04:07
I watched The Watchtower a little over a year ago on Youtube and it was RAF East Kirkby that was the focus of the programme. Sqn Ldr Jack Currie had been a pilot there with No. 630 Squadron. It was a marvellous programme, sadly someone has removed it from Youtube now. I’d love to watch it again. Here are the particulars from the BBC Radio Times listing.
The Watchtower
BBC Two England, 2 January 1985 17.20
Synopsis
The Watchtower – Guardian of the Bomber Legend
Unexplained sounds and sightings continue to haunt the deserted airfields of World War II. Many of the mysterious events appear to centre on the control tower – the watchtower as it was known to battle-hardened bomber crews.
Former bomber pilot
Squadron Leader Jack Currie recalls dramatic events that could explain the reported happenings around one such watchtower at East Kirkby in Lincolnshire.
Film cameraman KEITH MASSEY Film editor BRYAN JONES
Producer DOUGLAS B. SMITH
Jack Currie presented three other programmes related to Bomber Command. They were:
The Lancaster Legend
BBC Two England, 13 June 1980 20.30
A Pilot’s Story
Winner of the 1980 Royal Television Society Regional Programme Award, this film features former Sergeant Pilot Jack Currie. It evokes the excitement and tension he once knew as the captain of a Lancaster bomber in the Second World War when one of the greatest air battles in history was fought from England’s quietest county – Lincolnshire.
Film editor PATRICK HARGREAVES Producer DOUGLAS B. SMITH
The Augsburg Raid
BBC Two England, 5 September 1990 17.00
On 17 April 1942, 12 RAF bombers attacked Augsburg’s U-boat engine factory. A former bomber pilot, Squadron Leader Jack Currie , returns to Germany and the airfields of the raid. Producer Douglas Smith
And this one I have not seen but would love to see:
RAF Scampton
BBC One London, 19 December 1983 9.00
Forty years ago the Dambusters flew from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire. Now it’s the home of the Red Arrows aerobatic display team. Veteran Lancaster pilot Squadron Leader Jack Currie , DFC, goes On Location to see how it is, and how it was, at RAF Scampton.
Director ROGER KEECH Producer KEN COOPER
(First shown on BBC North)
By: Moggy C - 9th May 2015 at 10:18
Plenty. How many do you want.
The obvious choice is East Kirkby. But there are many more. Around here I can think of Parham, Seething, Thorpe Abbots, Rougham, Lavenham, etc., etc.
Moggy
By: Arabella-Cox - 9th May 2015 at 10:17
There are various buildings at the Metheringham Visitor Centre still in use for the museum as well as the old peri tracks now used as a road. The Watch Tower remains are still visible and there is a long term plan to renovate it by a private individual. Once a year [last weekend actually] there is a bus tour of the old Metheringham airfield at our Wartime Weekend which does include private land, permission generously given by the land owner.
This is a good pictorial of what can still be seen in Lincolnshire
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