Help save RAF DRIFFIELD (East Yorkshire)

Philip,
I have added a link to the petition to the home page of my website ‘Wartime airfields’
with a short explanation of what it is about.
Good luck.

Agree with the comments here and have now also signed.

Mark

Signed and assuming you won’t mind i will copy and past your message onto my forum. (see link below)

Greg

Signed – best of luck Phillip.

Signed – Surely those Type C – Hipped 10? bay hangars are worthy of some sort of presevation order in their own right. I wish you the very best of luck, Mr Rhodes.

Thank you for signing my petition – the other buildings are in danger – 68 married quarters, which one developer is more than prepared to restore and sell to first time buyers. There are also eight accommodation blocks, which can be converted into spacious flats. The officer’s mess can be used for a variety of new uses. The technical site is problematic, but I wouldn’t write off all of the concrete buildings.

This is where I get a bit emotional. All those who served at Driffield came and went – for them Driffield was home for a few years. Former RAF Driffield has been my spiritial home 34 years. Even though I left in 1978, its always been part of me and its history is part of me. I just dont know why no one locally cares. What have I dont to upset so many people. Is it me? it’s can’t be those who served at Driffield. I just don’t know what to do?

Phillip Rhodes

good luck with your fight Mr Rhodes hope you win. better still why dont you pm everyone on this forum? or at least those who are on here most of the time or even leave it to levy on BBC1 look north? or even a spread in the hull daily mail?

Hello

I emailed both the Hull Daily Mail and Yorkshire Post a few weeks ago, but nothing. The Driffield Times have done more than their bit (the News Editor is my Brother in Law). I will be emailing a few regulars who frequent this forum over the next few days. I’m actually in the BBC Open Centre now writing this. The BBC won’t report on this issue, because archive footage of RAF Driffield costs too much and it’s not a story.

Phil

Signed – Surely those Type C – Hipped 10? bay hangars are worthy of some sort of presevation order in their own right. I wish you the very best of luck, Mr Rhodes.

good luck with your fight Mr Rhodes hope you win. better still why dont you pm everyone on this forum? or at least those who are on here most of the time or even leave it to levy on BBC1 look north? or even a spread in the hull daily mail?

done my part, but can we all do more than just sign? if so what can we do?

Hello, you could spread the word. I’m hoping for 200 signatures within a week. I have 50 odd. Many thanks for signing the petition.

I would like to thank those who signed my petition.

It’s nice to know that so many people appreciate our aerodrome heritage. But for everyone who signed my petition I know there are numerous others who didn’t.

Saving RAF Driffield isn’t about me. Nor is it about saving my childhood home, and I’m certainly not doing this for my health.

The fight to save RAF Driffield is about the remains of the day. In 20 years time, there will be no one left alive who was there, during “our finest hour”. In 20 years time, the number of airfields left intact will also be fewer in number. We have an opportunity to save one airfield from total destruction.

I know a lot of those who frequent this forum, don’t like my “fanciful ideas”. Personal Messages and emails go answered and some of my threads go ignored. But that’s cool. All I ask is that you set aside any personal animosity and perceived indifference and please sign my petition.

Best Wishes

Phillip Rhodes

signed

done my part, but can we all do more than just sign? if so what can we do?

Signed,
Would be a shame to see another RAF station disappear without trace. do a search/ google on RAF Burtonwood OR try finding it on a current map, it was once the biggest station in Europe, ok so you can’t keep everything, however to remove all signs of the existance is a big dishonour to the people who served at these bases.

Paul

Best of luck!

I signed.. a shame to see the historic field lost.

Signed too, and well done Philip on getting the petition ‘live’.

Yep, I’ve signed too!

Duly signed
Best of luck Philip:)

My name is on the list, be sad to see yet another airfield be sold off when it could so easily be preserved in some way.