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RAF Lichfield
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chocks2
master brummie
RAF Lichfield Crest
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Tailgunner
knowlegable brummie
Any more thoughts... the more I learn about this place, the more it interest's me =)
Cheers Simon.
Cheers Simon.
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lakota
Guest
The housing estate at RAF Fradley is the old RAF housing that was sold of
Lakota
Lakota
The RAF Lichfield Association have just disbanded after 20years, but their website is still available and you may glean more info from it, see here: https://www.raf-lichfield.co.uk/
We have really enjoyed the reunions.
I'll see if I can find some more pictures.
We have really enjoyed the reunions.
I'll see if I can find some more pictures.
I visited a prospective customer at Fradley just before Christmas. Looking at the photos posted earlier it's surprising how much of the old airfield seems to have survived. It was a maintenance unit as I recall. I also remember attending model flying competitions there back in the 1960's, always ending up in a little pub by the canal junction. When I get a bit of time I'll go and have a closer look.
Big Gee
Big Gee
dek carr
gone but not forgotten
Fradley Airport. Back in the 60s the hangers were taken over by Lucas,s and became their stores a conveyor system was installed with no1 hanger being the operations H.Q. no 3 hanger was closest to the control tower there were many supposed sighting of a pilot who had come to a tragic end .I was involve in the electrical installation for 18 months but never saw anything.Dek
Hi there
i remember going to st georges barracks for a period and the reason i can recall it was i nearly got court marshalled for falling to sleep on gaurd duty
it was a very severe cold night and frosty and very wndy i had the great coat on and well wrapped up but i was so dead beat that i thought
i would pop into my billitt sat on my bed and i do not recall dozing off to sleep when my shift was up i was still asleep and the other guys whom was with me returned to the gaurd house for change of the rota and because i was a sleep on the bed i was no wiser for the time but my friend came in and found me and woke me up and told me they was searching the barracks for me so i got jangers for it for two days
and when i was back on duty in a couple of days later the red coats came from up country with a prisoner and i had to gaurd him and keep an eye on him in the cells when they brought him into the gaurd house i recinised him from steward st from years ago is name was billy so i bent the rules for him and gave him contraband whist geing waiting to be shipped to militry prison in a couple of days time
i also went to whittington barracks in lichfield and beleiove me there assault course was very demanding and its were or was the commandos do there traing its was a wicked assault course i will never forget then we went to mindon in germany
that was quite afew years ago but i still have the memorys of the good old days the sergeant of the red caps was my brothers old mate thats why i got away with what i done best wishes astonion
i remember going to st georges barracks for a period and the reason i can recall it was i nearly got court marshalled for falling to sleep on gaurd duty
it was a very severe cold night and frosty and very wndy i had the great coat on and well wrapped up but i was so dead beat that i thought
i would pop into my billitt sat on my bed and i do not recall dozing off to sleep when my shift was up i was still asleep and the other guys whom was with me returned to the gaurd house for change of the rota and because i was a sleep on the bed i was no wiser for the time but my friend came in and found me and woke me up and told me they was searching the barracks for me so i got jangers for it for two days
and when i was back on duty in a couple of days later the red coats came from up country with a prisoner and i had to gaurd him and keep an eye on him in the cells when they brought him into the gaurd house i recinised him from steward st from years ago is name was billy so i bent the rules for him and gave him contraband whist geing waiting to be shipped to militry prison in a couple of days time
i also went to whittington barracks in lichfield and beleiove me there assault course was very demanding and its were or was the commandos do there traing its was a wicked assault course i will never forget then we went to mindon in germany
that was quite afew years ago but i still have the memorys of the good old days the sergeant of the red caps was my brothers old mate thats why i got away with what i done best wishes astonion
oldMohawk
gone but not forgotten
I taught my son to drive there.
I sometimes wonder whether the forum's mystery aircraft was being taken there .... but still wondering !
I sometimes wonder whether the forum's mystery aircraft was being taken there .... but still wondering !
sospiri
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Quite a few pictures of Lichfield Airfield here:- https://www.airfieldinformationexchange.org/community/showthread.php?526-Lichfield-Fradley
Maurice
Maurice
