ah !…memories. I spent my adolescence lurking round that airfield and the adjacent railway. Many times I circumnavigated the field via the public footpaths, never saw any security ( timeframe late 50’s/early 60’s ).
If you walked down the A5 (as was) in Park Street during hot weather the hanger doors would be open to reveal Vics in various stages of manufacture – a carefully lobbed hand grenade could have taken out a fair bit of the V-force.
One old mystery cleared up for me – I often wondered what that pylon thingy was with the wheeled base on a circular track – now I know it was a rotary test rig.
Never had a camera in those days, and by the time I did, my interest in aircraft had waned and it was all over. I believe the runway was, on the odd occassion, used for drag racing in the 70’s.Recently there have been attempts to obtain planning permission for a rail-freight depot on the site.
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