Scrambles had gone downhill in recent years, (since the previous owner sold it) the food was awful and the place filthy, basically it went a bit chavvy. It was a shame to pull the building down as it was used during the war, although I don’t know what for. The previous owner has opened a new cafe further into Biggin Hill, it’s called The Spitfire, the food is good but the tea tastes just the same as it always did – bloody awful.
There is still a very rare original wooden dispersal hut on the airfield from the Battle of Britain, but it’s so knackered, it’s now unsafe to enter. I have some photos of it. What a piece of history, very eerie to look through the windows an imagine what went on.
Things like this should be saved as there are few left.
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