The ultimate snow clearing device;

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Jet-Aircraft-Engine-Rolls-Royce-Derwent_W0QQitemZ180453245201QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CPV_Aviation_SM?hash=item2a03da0111ice;

Wow, that’s almost tempting.. although with that amount of noise it would be hard to find somewhere to run it around here.. :dev2:

I say Oxford

You can align the photo pretty much exactly to the present day, there’s been a lot of house building inside the curve of the railway line which has resulted in the demise of most if not all of the airfield buildings pictured, but the field itself is still there.

http://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm?lat=50.86484410085011&lon=-1.3218917964285195&gz=16&oz=9&gt=1

A little bit over-sentimental at times but definitely one of my favourites

It’s ready to be melted and used to build merlin parts now.

That music on the first vid how depressing.!

Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 ‘Pathetique’. Melancholy rather than depressing imo, a reminder that not everything in life is beer and skittles.. 😎

It’s on YouTube:

Part 1 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmDBmfLIqDY
Part 2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u6pNGRdeTU
Part 3 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D82SrRWrYCg
Part 4 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b93szMOinAE
Part 5 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYcXqOZn2ik

Interesting complex of access tracks and what appear to be bomb stores to the east of your pinpoint.
Wonder if it could have been a remote bomb stores for RAF Poddington?

I see what you mean.. so I searched a little more and found this:

“There was a large munitions dump in the forest where many local women worked, an air strip on the Brafield Road, and an underground ammunition dump on the Denton Road.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/25/a2055025.shtml

So there was a strip somewhere near the racing circuit..