The 'Introduce yourself' Thread

hi my name is phil I run a small livestock farm in co. Durham with a farm shop selling organic food .my interest is in Raf silloth lockheed hudsons.
my late father was a Royal Marine and his brother sgt j e bond was a wo/ag on hudson mkv training at silloth but was lost on 5/2/1942 had been unable to find any info until last few days when two members of rafcommands.com came up with a bit of info.
so basically I am trying to find out as much as possible, so anybody watching with any info would be most welcome.
thanks,philipb.

Hi philipb welcome to the forum . There's usualy some one on the forum who can point you in the right direction or who knows somthing .

Regards ,

Bomber

thanks bomber, forgot to add my wifes uncle flew canberra's and his son flew lightnings and hawks now flies long haul passenger to australia etc.

Yes I was lucky to go airside whenever I wanted as a school lad in the 1970's.
I knew a lot of the Old boys who came to lulsgate when it changed from Air Ministry to civil when whitchurch closed, they passed on loads stories about the place and was always being taken out to do odd jobs around the airfield including a spot of driving!

Hi folks, I'm new to this site. I found it when I was looking for some information about RAF Halesworth. I recently retired from the USAF, spent quite a bit of time in England. I was at RAF Upper Heyford for a while and flew in to Mildenhall a lot flying to and from Aviano. I am trying to find some information about RAF Halesworth north of Ipswich. My Dad, now 88, flew the first B-24 Liberator in to Halesworth as the P-47s that were there were being moved out. I found someone's post with some aerial photos of the field but the posts were dated around 2009. The airfield was apparently being demolished at that time but the runways were still there. Anybody know the status of it today? Jana

Welcome to the forum Jana, the last pics posted on this thread:

/community/showthread.php?2627-Halesworth-HMS-Sparrowhawk

were posted in May this year. They made depressing viewing then so I dread to think what it's like now? I'm sure REF will be along shortly with further info. Pete

Welcome to the forum, Woll.

Welcome to the forum, Ranger1.

airfields wrote:

I bought a few of these Ghost Stations books by Halpenny years ago...unbelievable is a word that springs to mind..especially his so-called solved case of the Glenn Miller mystery..unbelievable !!! :confused: :confused:

I agree. I think the earlier couple of books were the best. Once he started getting into the flying saucer stuff and other mysteries it just all got a bit silly. Just a little story I'd like to tag on about Coleby Grange. i was up there about a month ago with acouple of ghost hunters i know and we a did a bit of a vigil fo about an hour. It was quite breezy with the wind coming from the west, and now and again just as it was getting dusk we would occasionally hear, muffled voices, singing and what sounded like Glen Miller music. we thought we had really stumbled onto something, then the penny dropped, the sounds were being carried on the wind from the distant village where they must have been holding a wartime dance. so the moral of this is, things are not what they always seem.
Kevin.