sheldontony
master brummie
I remember that club in Elmdon Lane. The other club near the old airport entrance was more fun. Serious drinking with aircrew and engineers.
Hello All
New to this forum having only recently moved into the 21st century by purchasing a computer.
Love the photos and reports from Elmdon Airport as I still prefer to know it by.
I used to live down near the Wheatsheaf just off Old Load Lane and spent many a happy day aircraft spotting at Elmdon during the 1960s. In fact I'm still an aircraft enthusiast to this day though not as a spotter. Once its in your blood it never goes away.
In answer to a few of the previous threads, the old battle headquarters which is still there is a typical design which was built at many military airfields during WW2 and due to the fact they were built mainly underground still exist at many old airfields around the country, although usually totally overgrown with brambles and filled with water. Pertentualy very dangerous places to explore. If you wish to see one that's fully restored and available to look round, go to Wellesbourne Mountford airfield near Stratford on Avon at the Wellesbourne Wartime Museum, open every Sunday and bank holiday Monday. The battle Headquarters were there to move airfield operations to if the airfield came under attack from the enemy, also as a means of defending the airfield from ground attack if the country was invaded. There would have been facilities to stay there for a few days.
The other point raised was the Warwick club. There was the Warwickshire Aero Club, this was in one of the old Nissan style huts close to the public enclosure. During the time around 1966 they had a disco night on a Friday and called the club Angels 1, 5, for that event only. I went during this time,
it had a good atmosphere, but was very small, it didn't last long. Could this be the club referred to.
Next door at the other Nissan hut at around the same time the local aircraft spotters formed a club
which produced a monthly magazine called Contrail. It was started by a councillor from I believe Small Heath named Barry Chair. I was a member of this club, don't think the members from the Aero club next door appreciated the presence of us riff raff though. Ah happy days.
Anybody out there remember, and was also perhaps a member of the spotters club.
Hi fishoG'day Elmdon boy, do you still have your BSA Bantam!!!
I have posted a couple of messages in conversations about the old days
Stitcher, my mother had the same thoughts as you about flying, she would say"if the lord had wanted us to fly he would have given us wings", well the first time mom and dad flew to Texas to visit me in 1963 she said there is no other way to go....can'nt say dad felt the same way though....BrendaView attachment 116992 View attachment 116993 View attachment 116994
I used to go with a couple of friends when we were 10 or 12 years old to watch the aircraft arrive and or leave. I was never a plane spotter, I have never left the ground in an aircraft and I never will.
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I used to go with a couple of friends when we were 10 or 12 years old to watch the aircraft arrive and or leave. I was never a plane spotter, I have never left the ground in an aircraft and I never will.
Stitcher, my mother had the same thoughts as you about flying, she would say"if the lord had wanted us to fly he would have given us wings", well the first time mom and dad flew to Texas to visit me in 1963 she said there is no other way to go....can'nt say dad felt the same way though....Brenda
Very nostalgic pictures stitcher. Thanks for the postings. Takes my memory back, particularly the last photo.
Obviously 1965 or slightly later by the car registration, probably a Sunday looking at the number of spotters on the viewing balcony. I wonder if I am one of them.
Hi, Elmdon Boy, no it is not one of my own photos. I suppose I'm one of the forum's aviation enthusiasts ... it probably came from watching my dad building model aeroplanes when he came home from work at the Castle Bromwich Spitfire factory.That's an interesting photo oldMohawk. Is it a paper photo or one of yours. Never seen a photo of the two Sabres on the ground before. Looks like there parked on the grass as well. Got any more to share from the 50s.