Good to see some more photos and memories added to this thread.:)

Was it you that sprayed our garden and whitened our greenhouse windows…:eek:;)

I think the last aerial spraying done was on contract pea crops and possibly Potatoes…?
…but I think slug baiting may have continued a bit longer.?? Now the preserve of all terrain 4 wheel motorbike things….

Thank you,
Clive.

Hello Tony,
Good to see the photos….:)

..and I look forward to you finding further to add.;)

Thank you,
Clive.

Thank you Turbycat for adding your Skegness memories….

I hope you can find some of your old photos to add at some stage.:).

I did once come across a Jaguar fly through at Skegness….we had heard the radio call as we landed and had just got taxied back and stepped out to see them belt by…

Had the same in later days at Gamston with a very low level Fouga Magister passing by as we had just vacated the runway….

Also thank you to l.garey for posting on with the photo of G-AHAL.

All the best,
Clive.:)

Hello Scott,

In days gone by the aerodrome Bedford CF minibus would be ready at Butlins to take you to the old aerodrome for a pleasure flight in an Auster….up to Skegness Clocktower..South along the seafront or for a fraction more North up the coastline…..

The aerodrome was at first operated by Butlins…from June 1948.? Later during the 1950s? Skegness Air Taxi Service Ltd became the operators…

Was Clacton also a Butlins aerodrome.?

The Skegness (Ingoldmells) aerodrome site that I refer to featured in a google map image that I posted via a link higher up the thread.. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Ingoldmells,+Skegness,+Lincolnshire+PE25,+United+Kingdom&layer=&ie=UTF8&sll=53.098145,-2.443696&sspn=9.055978,19.775391&t=k&om=0&z=16&ll=53.184989,0.340426&spn=0.004436,0.016694&iwloc=addr

This can be compared with the 1980s photos posted up in the last few days by Dave Welch.

There was an earlier, 1930s, Skegness (Winthorpe) aerodrome…it was further towards Skegness on the West of the Roman Bank near the Royal Oak public house I think.
A photo features on page 27 of Wings Over Lincolnshire..a 1994 book by Peter Green, Mike Hodgson, Bill Taylor published by Midland Publishing Ltd.

Aviation is still served in the Skegness area by the current strip at the Water Leisure Park which is off Walls Lane…opposite the Southern end of the Butlins complex. http://www.skegnesswaterleisurepark.co.uk/index.htm

Have a good time at Butlins…;)

Clive.