Description
Ghost Fields of Norfolk surveys 32 of Norfolk’s disused wartime airfields, plus ‘shadow’ fields and some in use during the First World War. It provides operational histories, plans and photographs of the visible remains at each site, ranging form control towers and hangars, to bomb dumps and squash courts.
“If any one element could be said to connect the sites surveyed in this volume, it is silence. Sculthorpe and Watton are capable of frenetic activity during exercises, but most of the time they are peaceful save for the skylarks and the keening of the wind. It is in these silences that a field becomes once more a runway from which might bombers lifted; that a small industrial unit reverts to being a busy Mess Hall; that a metla-walled grain store is again filled with the silhouettes of extinct military aircraft. In these silences, the ghosts walk once more upon the Ghost Fields.”
Airfields described in this book include: Attlebridge, Bircham Newton, Bodney, Deopham Green, Docking, Downham Market, East Wrentham, Fersfield, Foulsham, Great Massingham, Hardwick, Hethel, Lengham, Little Snoring, Ludham, Matlask, Methwold, North Creake, North Pickenham, Old Buckenham, Oulton, Rackheath, Sculthorpe, Seething, Shipdham, Snetterton Heath, Swannington, Thorpe Abbotts, Tibenham, Watton, Wendling, and West Raynham.
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