Skellingthorpe airfield

[smithy77]

Hello everyone, i'm just wondering if anyone has any memories or even pictures of skellingthorpe airfield. Sadly what is left of it both sides of the A46 bypass is now either sold or for sale. Sad considering the many young men who took off from there in their planes never to return again.

Many thanks Smithy.

[miriamkinga]

Some info here: -

http://www.bcar.org.uk/skellingthorpe-history

and here: -

http://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/unit-info/685/

[smithy77]

Yes i had already seen those sites, but thankyou for that anyway. I have lived in Lincoln over 40 years but i don't remember much about the airfield. We used to play in the old air raid shelters as children. Also read different books on it.

Just when you walk in the woods that it has now become you often wonder how it must have been in it's wartime years.

[Geoff-E]

Coincidentally, it's being discussed on FaceBook at the moment.

I found this map showing its position relative to Birchwood http://dx3webs.com/wordpress/2010/02/where-was-raf-skellingthorpe-located/

[smithy77]

Oh right i didn't know that, thank you. If they develop it it makes you wonder what they will unearth under all that. Although it's said when they developed the birchwood estate that nothing turned up from it's RAF days.

That place must have held such tensions for so many in it's day, Skellingthorpe had one of the highest losses of any WW11 airfield. Hard to imagine the feelings they must have felt as they boarded their planes, on the upside the feeling of relief as they touched down again,,and not forgetting how nice those bacon and eggs must have been.

[Lizzie Sharp]

 Hi there
my family live on RAF Skellingthorpe in Lincoln back in 1954 my Bother was born on the camp in 1955, a bus use to came on the camp and pick Children up and take them to School.