Country: England

RAF Nacton – Ipswich Airport in 1945

Ipswich Airport (IATA: IPW, ICAO: EGSE) is a former airfield on the outskirts of Ipswich, Suffolk England. It was known as RAF Nacton when No.…
RAF Polebrook (site of)

Royal Air Force Station Polebrook or more simply RAF Polebrook is a former Royal Air Force station located 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east-south-east of Oundle,…
Hawker plane factory at Langley Airfield in 1945

The Hawker Aircraft Company bought Parlaunt Farm at Langley in 1938 and built a major factory and airfield there. Well over 8,000 military aircraft were…
RAF Lympne 1940

RAF Lympne /ˈlɪm/ was a Royal Air Force station used during the First and Second World Wars. It opened in 1916 by the Royal Flying…
RAF Melksham in 1945

RAF Melksham was better known as No 12 School of Technical Training from 1940 to 1965 but also housed No 10 School of Recruit Training…
RAF Shepherds Grove in 1945

RAF Shepherds Grove is a former Royal Air Force base in Suffolk England 9 miles NE of Bury St Edmunds. The base was built for…
Grave site of Margaret Thatcher

After the funeral service of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at St. Paul’s Cathedral on April 17. she will was laid to rest beside…
Redlands – UK home of Keith Richards

This is Redlands, the mansion of Rolling Stones member Keith ‘Keef’ Richards. He bought the house in 1966 from a former commodore of the Royal…
RAF Fairlop

RAF Fairlop was first used during the First World War as a Royal Naval Air Station Training School. A small flying club used the site…
Results of the Plymouth Blitz in 1940 – Torpoint

This view of Torpoint shows the effects of German bombing. The town’s location west of Plymouth meant that it sustained heavy bomb damage during the…
Mullion Admiralty Airship Station – HMS Bonython

Sometimes referred to as the Lizard Airship Station and known locally as HMS Bonython, Mullion Admiralty Airship Station opened in June 1916 with the intention…
Old Airfield Hangar near to Willersley, Herefordshire

It’s hard to believe now, but in the early days of aviation there were more than a dozen little airfields scattered along the banks of…
Kegworth air disaster

The Kegworth Air Disaster occurred on 8 January 1989, when British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, crashed onto the embankment of the M1 motorway…
British European Airways Flight 548 crash site

British European Airways Flight 548 was a Trident airliner (registration: G-ARPI) that crashed less than three minutes after departing from London Heathrow Airport, killing all…
RAF Hullavington Gliding School in 1946

In 1935 the goverment purchased Bell Farm from a Mr F J Huntley, some of his farm buildings, now listed, still stand today in the…
George Harrisons mansion – Friar Park

Friar Park is the 120-room Victorian neo-Gothic mansion previously owned by the eccentric Sir Frank Crisp near Henley-on-Thames and bought by the musician George Harrison…