I did my PPL there on a RAF FS in um er 1971.
Great place - stayed on site, friendly club members. Taught by the CFI, Jim ???, have to check my logbooks for his surname. Top bloke - ex RAF, died a few years later when he was teaching and flew into the winch cable of a glider launch - they used to use parallel runways.
If you were on the first slot, he used to take off in the direction of the horses that the gypsies used to leave to graze on the field. Fly at 1' over them, climb to 1000', and then dive bomb them. How the Condor's wings survived the pullout I will never know.
Happy days....