RAF Worksop

I like the extra £3 for the CD-ROM!

Aye:
AIR 29/2694 £1,823.00
Your instructions Copy all pages in this document
Comments from staff
Copying Process No. of Units Unit Cost Process Cost
ScanA3online 650 £2.80 £1,820.00
Additional charge for CD-ROM 1 £3.00 £3.00

Ouch! how much would it actually cost to scan a page??? – normally about 10p to do a photocopy so how they can justify £2.80 is beyond me

Anyway 2 more pictures to add today of Vampires – not sure if either of them are Worksop yet but they’re somewhere between 1955 and 57 as thats how long one of them lasted!

Starting to get some great photos back of the airbase so I’ve started splitting them into sections for ease of referencing.

National Archieves offered to photocopy the station ORB for nearly £2000 so politely turned that down – I’ll have to go over and look at it in person.

Turns out the airfield never had an open day – the event in 1958 was an Inter-command aerobatics competition.

Coming soon…
“Call the fire brigade” – NCO tells how to avoid landing on tanks at Gamston, how THREE Meteors crashed on the airfield in one night, details of the fire vehicles at Worksop, skiing on the runway and lots of photos including the control tower!

Hmmm, looking forward to see these chap.:)

Regards, Rad

Is that for actual photocopies on paper? The last time I bought a copy of an ORB on a DVD it cost me about £55. First I had to fill out a form for an estimate.

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/recordcopying/estimateoptions.aspx

I then had to accept the estimate and pay for it online. Then there was a long wait because the job is outsourced to some specialist company to be scanned. After a couple of months it finally arrived. Each file was a separate scan in a format that has to be opened with Windows viewer. I used a program called PDF-Redirect, that appears as choice of printer but instead of printing the document converts it to pdf that you can save, to convert it to a single pdf document. That took an hour or two but much easier to read it using Adobe reader.

Photos/Coming Soon…

Starting to get some great photos back of the airbase so I’ve started splitting them into sections for ease of referencing.

National Archieves offered to photocopy the station ORB for nearly £2000 so politely turned that down – I’ll have to go over and look at it in person.

Turns out the airfield never had an open day – the event in 1958 was an Inter-command aerobatics competition.

Coming soon…
“Call the fire brigade” – NCO tells how to avoid landing on tanks at Gamston, how THREE Meteors crashed on the airfield in one night, details of the fire vehicles at Worksop, skiing on the runway and lots of photos including the control tower!

Thanks antoni – did a search just under Worksop and found much more – pity these files are badly catalogued

Hi Vampire Dave – the only other name I have is F/L Bennett. Hopefully I’ll be able to get some more info back later this week.

Happy that Radpoe Meteor wants to work with me too, I fully agree the lack of stuff on the base is making my life a bit hard at the moment, I keep getting little snippets but the finer details are hold to get. Does anyone know how I’d be able to get the stations ORB?

From the National Archives – they do not seem to have anything from during the war.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/searchresults.asp?fldLettercodeRef=AIR&fldClassRef=&fldSearchNumber=175824&fldInvert=0&SearchInit=6

RAF Worksop

Dave,

You may wish to email me as I have a couple of good photographs that may interest you, together with information on the Vampires and display teams?

Hi Vampire Dave – the only other name I have is F/L Bennett. Hopefully I’ll be able to get some more info back later this week.

Happy that Radpoe Meteor wants to work with me too, I fully agree the lack of stuff on the base is making my life a bit hard at the moment, I keep getting little snippets but the finer details are hold to get. Does anyone know how I’d be able to get the stations ORB?

Well done Dave, its a brilliant site so far – about time someone put RAF Worksop back on the map.:)

I’ve just sent you a message on the site Re display material.

Regards Rad.

RAF Worksop

I note that you mention a Meteor display team in April 1958 on your website, which included the loss of Meteor T.Mk.7, WL359 and the unfortunate death of Flt Lt Gordon Levitt. This was obviously the last team put up by No.4 FTS before it disbanded in June. Do you happen to know the other members of this Meteor team?

Great site Dave, I didn’t realise you done so much! Thankyou for the mention, but looking at how much you’ve covered my input was a very small part! Hope you get lots more fascinating info to add to it, well done!

Hi Ratty,

You’re not the only one to do that – me and my brother used to play Spitfires here on our bikes when we were younger

Great site and tribute to my most local former RAF Airfield. We used to have great fun riding our bikes up and down the main runway.

We cant even do that anymore, shame!