The 'Introduce yourself' Thread

Hi Phil,

There is a copy on ABE books at £15 plus £4 postage.

Pauline.

PETERTHEEATER;145722 wrote:

Don't worry Phil. Get the cheap one and I will sign it.

Ha! Ha!

The Mrs just bought a bargain handbag... £196 reduced to £32 so that was the green light to go ahead for the book purchase of the year!

pauline;145734 wrote:

Hi Phil,

There is a copy on ABE books at £15 plus £4 postage.

Pauline.

Hi Pauline,

Did look on ABE yesterday but did not see it for sale so I've bitten the bullet and spent the £35 on Amazon...Its only money!!

Phil

I received the following link after our previous discussion on activity at the Wing Airfield.

clutch.open.ac.uk/schools/emerson00/air_wing_airfield.html

I believe that they also have a post on the third London airport proposal that generated a lot of activity at the time.

Miss Pinchbeck had moved to the village of Cublington during the early 1940's to escape the London bombing and left some time in the late 1950's.

Dave.

Hope you will enjoy the book. You will find an account of the accident to the Martin Baker MB3 on page 48 and a super photo of it at Wing on page 49. My father was at Wing when this lovely little plane was being tested but I don't recall him ever mentioning it.

Pauline.

pauline;145748 wrote:

Hope you will enjoy the book. You will find an account of the accident to the Martin Baker MB3 on page 48 and a super photo of it at Wing on page 49. My father was at Wing when this lovely little plane was being tested but I don't recall him ever mentioning it.

Pauline.

Thanks again Pauline, really am very grateful. Looking forward to reading the book. I still cant believe that I cycled past this site numerous times when I was a nipper in the 70s and didn't even realise.

Phil

Harboda77;145747 wrote:

I received the following link after our previous discussion on activity at the Wing Airfield.

clutch.open.ac.uk/schools/emerson00/air_wing_airfield.html

I believe that they also have a post on the third London airport proposal that generated a lot of activity at the time.

Miss Pinchbeck had moved to the village of Cublington during the early 1940's to escape the London bombing and left some time in the late 1950's.

Dave.

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the link.

I have vague recollections of the Cublington protests when I was about four or five and seeing banners and posters all over the neighbouring villages and being dragged along on protest marches. My mum is 83 and remembers the protests and the genuine fears of the local residents that their little piece of rural paradise in Buckinghamshire came very close to being a noisy, concrete jungle. Fascinating piece of history which I am really looking forward to researching.

With best wishes

Phil

Non-existant user wrote:

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the link.

I have vague recollections of the Cublington protests when I was about four or five and seeing banners and posters all over the neighbouring villages and being dragged along on protest marches. My mum is 83 and remembers the protests and the genuine fears of the local residents that their little piece of rural paradise in Buckinghamshire came very close to being a noisy, concrete jungle. Fascinating piece of history which I am really looking forward to researching.

With best wishes

Phil

I believe that they erected a plaque at the copse on the corner of the Dunton & Stewkley roads to record this piece of local history.

I remember that some of the more volatile protest elements were tooling up for serious insurrection that thankfully was never deployed.

A colleague of mine worked at the garage in Wing during 1977 and they looked after the Bentley owned by a someone on the hill at Mentmore.

Dave

HI i,m mickj and iam very interested ot have just found this site.
All i know is that my father was an american serviceman who was possibaly stationed around Chester city area and i am just interested in finding out what army regiments were stationed around this area.
I,m sure that i will find this site very infomative and look forward to being on here.

Welcome to the forum, mickj . On first read Burtonwood sprang to mind but am sure other members will have more knowledge of bases nearer to Chester.

Regards Pete