My Dads [Arthur Newton]youngest brothere was here -514 squdrn 1943 Frederick Newton -[b L/pool 1915]sergt-Bomb aimer /navigator- ive got some of his hand written training notebooks- on Ansons Flew in Lancs and Sterlings. Got photos- -Tharined at West Freuch nr Stranraer S Scotland. Some remnants of targets still extant 30 ops over Germany -not a scratch, He used to phone us up at 2 am at Huyton L/pool on leave. My dad1946 to Borneo with Shell-settled back in Rock Ferry Wirral 1950. Foreman at Stanlow oil 1946-Great sportsman Hot school L/pool I have his 1928 schoolboys diary. phil newton
Many thanks Zinc for posting and sharing your video of Waterbeach - appreciated! I have wonderful memories and many good friends whilst at RAF Waterbeach where I lived between 1954 and 1958 with my parents in a Warrant Officer married quarter as my father was a Master Navigator who served for 40 years in the RAF from 1940. I attended Waterbeach Primary School and Cambridge High School. Coincidentally I retained an interest in aviation and former RAF airfields and married quarters. This started with the first aircraft I ever flew in being G-AHED, a de Havilland Rapide owned by Marshalls Cambridge whilst at the Battle of Britain Air Show at Waterbeach in 1955. In 1971 I bought my father's former RAF Devon aircraft which he flew whilst stationed at RAF Northolt and at the age of 25 I obtained an AOC and started an airline - Macedonian Aviation based at Southend operating six DC3 Dakotas and Devons/Doves. When the Army barracks at Waterbeach closed and the engineers moved to former RAF Kinloss Scotland in 2010 one of my related companies bought 321 former NCO and officer MQs on the base. Since 1980 I have purchased 35 former military married quarter and airfield sites, some Army and Navy but the majority being former RAF facilities see www.twsg.co.uk
When was you there? My uncle was there 2009-2004ish with the royal engineers, i can vaguely remember as a kid him showing me and my brother around and this old cinema room looked familiar to the picture I have of me asleep in my uncles arms in there! Cant fully remember though i was only 3 years old haha
