Dead cities: RAF Attlebridge

Dead cities: RAF Attlebridge

Lost in a landscape

RAF Attlebridge …the end of the South Eastern runway, Honingham Road, Western Longville. The most accessible publicly visible bit of the airfield left. The first station built in Norfolk for WW2 use. Originally RAF flying Blenheims and Bostons, it passed to...
Lost in a Landscape: RAF Happisburgh

Lost in a Landscape: RAF Happisburgh

Lost in a landscape

Everyone I mean *everyone* in North Norfolk, and the Eastern bit of North Norfolk, or East Norfolk as I like to call it when I’m a bit y’know, not from London or the home counties, knows Happisburgh. It’s the most interesting bit of Norfolk Coast by...
Dead Cities: Deopham Green

Dead Cities: Deopham Green

Lost in a landscape

RAF Deopham Green, latterly home to 452nd Bombardment Group (Heavy), becoming USAAF designation Station 142*. The group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses as part of the Eighth Air Force’s strategic bombing campaign. This is a remnant of the North Runway and a runaway...