A most unusual Spitfire variant flew from there.

Any help, or should I be less cryptic?

Adrian

(and I don’t recall Ingham at all – maybe I’ve just seen it in my copy of Bowyer, and remembered the funny shape?)

I suppose this means we’ll have to dive into the reference books then!

Chris

Got me stumped!

There is a field someone else has posted – almost square – that I am sure was the subject iof an article in Flypast years ago. Wellingtons, I think. Can I remember the name? Can I hell!

Adrian

Adrian, are you referring to my post (#110)? Wellington’s is good and you’re along the right lines. Another clue is it’s very close to a rather more famous Expansion Period airfield and as a satellite for another ‘up the road’. It closed before the end of the war.

Chris

Try this one.

That’ll be Breighton then.

Chris.

Twin Otter,

I am (ashamed to say) not familar with this site but if what is said in the new article turns out to be correct, I and many other airfield enthusiast never will be either!

A rather depressing prospect. I know not everything can be ‘moth balled’ but yet again we see a distinct part of a regions heritage disappear. If it were a ‘genuine’ archaelogocal site, there’d be uproar.

I really sympathise.

Chris

Absolutely – RIP Raymond.

Obviously I’m too young to remember his commentaries on the Farnboroughs in the fifties but I think most people will have seen the clip he commentated on of the Vulcan being rolled. He was brilliant on Tomorrow’s World and when he returned to airshow commentating in the eighties. I think his talent was making what he did/say look effortless and was able to convey what he was saying in an understandable and clearly knowledgable manner. A sad loss.

Excellent. I wasn’t able to make it this time but thanks for the beautiful photos. Stunning Buchon shots.

Chris

Looking at the dates supplied by Alan and others here, it is probable that your girlfriends grandad may have been been moved from the Stalag Luft III near Peenemunde by the time it was bombed extensively (this was the 17th/18th August 1943), so one would assume he was out of the ‘danger area’ by then! A small bit of irony though, if he was at the POW camp is that 102 Sqn took part in the Peenemunde raid (with the loss of none of the aicrfat despatched).

Chris

Certainly one of these locations, to the north-west of Sheffield was used as an ordnace storage from late ’43 onwards. Whilst undertaking completely unrelated research at one particular site, I was assured by the (then) tennent farmer that ‘his’ land was used for such storage and clearly remebered the comings and goings of large US wagons. No buildings were erected at this site as all of the GP ordnance was stored open. Given the dates and the increased activity in later months (again according to the farmer) suggests it was a holding area for operations in support of Overlord(?). The anecdotal evidence was given to me during 1996, but it did make it into the historical management history which arose from the project (as part of my degree).

The site from which the signs orginate is further out from Sheffield and does indeed have sime original wartime buildings remaining. The intention is to donate these items (inlcuding a couple which are still in situ) to Aeroventure, although the removal of these will have to be negotiated.

That said, we’re still curious as to what the second ‘M’ refers to in the legend ‘M.T.M’. They are currently in my garage awaiting the attention/advice of an archaeological conservator (when she has a minute in her schedule!) on the best way to clean and preserve these items, which are still in superb condition.

Chris