This is a question about the runway at Woolsington in the 1960s. Let me start with a bit of background.

Woolsington opened in 1935 as a grass airfield and it was 1954 before a “lengthy tarmac runway” was laid. This ran roughly SW-NE (that is, the line of the present runway) and was shown in 1959 as 5300 feet x 150 feet. One 3200 feet grass strip was retained which ran South-North, crossing the “tarmac” runway at a point part-way between the present terminal building and the general aviation area. The airport was closed for several months in 1965-1966 for the runway to be lengthened and strengthened. I guess that the grass strip was “retired” during the construction of the new terminal which was officially opened in 1967. The present runway is shown on the CAA website as 7640 feet x 148 feet (my rough conversion from metres into feet).

Does anyone know if the 1965-1966 extension produced the present length of runway?

OR

Has there been a subsequent (post-1966) runway extension?