It was quite a surprise to me when I found the following in the flight archive
1936 forthcoming events
June 20. Opening of Gosford House Landing Ground,
Longniddry, East Lothian.
Now I have researched East Lothian airfields for years and this is the first reference I have ever seen about this.
firstly does anyone have any more info on this landing ground.
Do you know of or have seen references to these long forgotten landing grounds.
obviously there are going to be dozens of references to farmers private landing strips so can we keep it to larger or locally well known areas.
Gosford house is a big house in East Lothian used during the second world war as a Polish camp.
By: Drem - 12th December 2007 at 06:59
Hi Merlin,
Have you asked Jack Tully-Jackson about this one…..
By: steve_p - 9th December 2007 at 17:16
Wasn’t this strip built by the CO of 602 (or 603) Squadron for the use of his Squadron? He lived in the big house.
Best wishes
Steve P
By: Merlin3945 - 9th December 2007 at 16:53
Hi Allan,
This is exactly the sort of thing I am talking about.
With the Gosford site I found out later that the whole landing ground was given a miss in favour of Macmerry airfield being used as a Civil and Commercial site. Also a lot of info in Flight about various other civil airfields.
Anyone else found long lost information in the flight archive or other archives.
By: Pondskater - 9th December 2007 at 16:42
The Flight archive is very useful – but also somewhat absorbing.
This page: http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1933/1933%20-%201165.html has an interesting report on the progress of municipal airports in 1933.
A few of towns listed as being inspected never did build airports. Alan Cobham was one of those involved in the inspections.
Allan
By: Newforest - 9th December 2007 at 14:19
This is a good place to start for searches, but not yours!
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