Fascinating stuff!! Imagine the paperwork you’d need these days to taxi a Beverley across a public highway and skate it around in the mud. I might write to the Evening Echo and ask if anyone has any pictures from those days…
I spent many a happy hour wandering along the footpath behind the church. I vividly remember ‘discovering’ it one Saturday morning, crawling through the undergrowth and coming across a clutch of dilapidated airframes in a compound behind Bob Batt’s hangar….some years later, there was an Aero 45, stripped to bare metal over there. 15/33 was still operational in those days and I recall another weekend sitting right on the edge of the runway in the undershoot and an Air UK Bandit landing on 15…
I got to know the security guys quite well in those days. Some were far more accomodating than others and I often cadged a lift around the airfield with some of them. On one occasion, I got picked up at the taxiway crossing (the BAF Carvair and Dove were still extant and there were a couple of Icelandic Bell 47’s in the Helicopter Hire hangar), driven around the entire airfield and eventually dropped off back at the Terminal, only to remember that I’d left my pushbike in the churchyard, resulting in a long walk back!
I’m pleased this thread’s resurfaced again, brings back lots of memories….
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