Lavendon airfield?

Creaking Door
The weapons were practice bombs filled with concrete. Apparently there are some old fins still sticking around in the hedgerows here(ask the farmer first).
The bomb dump you mention is in Salcey Forest. The bombing range was in open country to the north east of the Werrington roundabout(Olney to Wellingborough road)
The original enquiry did not specify any time dates and this is all relevant aviation history that may interest a lot of viewers.

I think we might all be missing something here – the note by the pin says “Lavendon Airfield 1916-1920”.

An airfield of that period, in my limited experience, would have very few fixed amenities, and much of it would be canvas. Runways would have been grass – remember, all sorts of aircraft operated off grass right into and beyond WW2 – and probably quite short.

I can walk you over the site of the one “permanent” building on Port Meadow, (bar the concrete target, which is hundreds of yards from the flying area) and you wouldn’t know it had ever been there. Similarly, the WW1 airfield near Bangor, Gwynedd, is utterly invisible now. Unless, like Rendcombe, you had a few huts surviving, I doubt you’d find much trace at all on the ground. If it existed, It’s not really any wonder at all that it’s hard to find traces of it.

Adrian

Lavendon airfield.

Have you tried under another name?
Airfields were not always known by the name of the nearest village if that name was close enough to another airfield name such as to create confusion. In this case Lavenham in Suffolk.
I lived in the area during the war years and the only one I recollect in the area was at Denton, just a few miles up the road towards Northampton and that was a Relief Landing Ground used by the Sywell aircraft.

Hi All nicked this from wikipedia:D regarding the bomb dump:

Yardley Chase contains some large concrete huts, about 12m (40 feet) long, and about 6-8m (20-25 feet) wide, which were used during World War II to store bombs. They continued in use after the war, until the 1990s when the Ministry of Defence shut them down when it became obvious that they would be useless in a nuclear war. The site was served by a branch of the Northampton-Bedford railway line and evidence of revetted tracks are still visible around the site which is only a few kilometers East of the former depot of the Royal Pioneer Corps at Simpson Barracks in Wootton.

The Eastern munitions site is larger than its Western neighbour and the bomb storage buildings, in addition to being less numerous, are also mostly surrounded by water-filled moats. The storage buildings at the Western site are surrounded by earth banks. The Eastern site was connected to the Western site by a rail track.

The site is still used by Army cadets and Territorial Army units for basic skills training.

regarding an airfield at Lavendon I can’t find anything!

Just to the West of the village and NE of the Warrington roundabout,was a practice RAF/USAAF bombing ground during World War Two.

Live weapons? That sounds a bit dangerous!

About three-and-a-half miles west of Lavendon there is a huge bomb-dump (see satellite photo below).

http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=52.186786,-0.773463&spn=0.005762,0.021501&t=h&z=16&om=1

Presumably it was used in support of the RAF/USAAF bomber offensive.

Just to the West of the village and NE of the Werrington roundabout,was a practice RAF/USAAF bombing ground during World War Two.

Kartman,
found only this
http://www.abct.org.uk/page_1768.html
and put it in GE.

Martin

Guess any field could be an ‘airfield’!:D Ask your parents to ask the oldest person in the village.

Cirrus Moth G-EBSA owned by the Linnell brothers may have been based in a field here in 1928,but need confirmation.