Control tower circa 1970s   Photograph of the Control Tower taken, we believe in the early 1970s  One of our volunteers has recently discovered this from his collection of photos taken over the years.   The photo shows the chance light building still standing at the time, with the rear wall of the fire engine ambulance shed Nissen hut in front of it.

B-17 ‘Fever Beaver’ standing on No 10 Hard Stand showing a long line of mission bomb symbols and very worn paint work.  The squadron and aircraft code are barely visible.  Under the wing, is a very large tree stump that had just been left on the grass and one of the airfield’s Tannoy speakers.  We don’t know why the tree stump had been left there! Photo 3 Photo 3 was taken between Hard Stands No 9 and No 10 and shows a B-17 on the runway, a truck on the perimeter / taxiway an

Volunteers Linda and Brian Barden have been looking through some of the photographs in our archives. The photograph below was taken by the pilot of an unknown B-17 which had just taken off from the south east to north west short runway. In this photograph, we can see the course of Hang the Expense during its attempted take off across the airfield and it’s subsequent crash in Lodge farm yard on 26 November 1943. The pilot, Lieutenant Frank Valesh, probably didn’t endear himse