Ralf Roggeveen
Charter Member
Going a bit senile I cannot remember whether these pictures were ever shown before, but can't find them in the SoH archive and they hadn't been removed from my 'To be posted' file, so here they are (again? maybe). Never mind if they have appeared before, I'm sure you lot won't mind a repeat performance...
Last summer I had to do some work out to the west of Nottingham and drove past this interesting-looking old building:
Stopped to take a closer look...
This is right by Nottingham Tollerton Airport, Nottingham's municipal airfield first opened in June 1930. Have a book with an aerial view taken about 3 years later:
Note the circle with a pointer to indicate wind direction, which they have preserved:
This range of 1930s buildings has also survived, visible to the left in the old photo:
Looks like the building on the left was probably the WW2 RAF Officers' Mess, 1993 book described it as 'a pub and restaurant', but it didn't seem to be that any more by 2010. RAF tarmacced the airfield during the War. Two shots of today's small GA airport:
Above: The Tower with that pointer in front.
It has, of course, lost out to EGNX Nottingham East Midland at Castle Donington (actually in Leicestershire), quite a big international airport, base of British Midland, which may soon even have flights to New York. (Unfortunately from one of the shabby bring-your-own-toilet-paper operators like Ryanair). There is also EGCN Doncaster Sheffield Robin Hood - ridiculous, as everyone (except Yorkshire folk) knows that Robin Hood came from Nottingham, NOT South Yorkshire! Anyway, back to EGBN:
Closer look at that preserved WW2 pillbox:
Probably would have been further covered by earth and better camouflaged at the time and there would have been several around the perimeter. It has plaques about the restoration effort, 1941 Wellington crash and RAFVR memorial:
Although it was flooded last summer:
More soon, including aircraft seen there last summer.
Last summer I had to do some work out to the west of Nottingham and drove past this interesting-looking old building:
Stopped to take a closer look...
This is right by Nottingham Tollerton Airport, Nottingham's municipal airfield first opened in June 1930. Have a book with an aerial view taken about 3 years later:
Note the circle with a pointer to indicate wind direction, which they have preserved:
This range of 1930s buildings has also survived, visible to the left in the old photo:
Looks like the building on the left was probably the WW2 RAF Officers' Mess, 1993 book described it as 'a pub and restaurant', but it didn't seem to be that any more by 2010. RAF tarmacced the airfield during the War. Two shots of today's small GA airport:
Above: The Tower with that pointer in front.
It has, of course, lost out to EGNX Nottingham East Midland at Castle Donington (actually in Leicestershire), quite a big international airport, base of British Midland, which may soon even have flights to New York. (Unfortunately from one of the shabby bring-your-own-toilet-paper operators like Ryanair). There is also EGCN Doncaster Sheffield Robin Hood - ridiculous, as everyone (except Yorkshire folk) knows that Robin Hood came from Nottingham, NOT South Yorkshire! Anyway, back to EGBN:
Closer look at that preserved WW2 pillbox:
Probably would have been further covered by earth and better camouflaged at the time and there would have been several around the perimeter. It has plaques about the restoration effort, 1941 Wellington crash and RAFVR memorial:
Although it was flooded last summer:
More soon, including aircraft seen there last summer.
. Lost the whole lot yesterday morning, Drat and Double Drat! 
(But it seems a bit better today).
