At RAE Bedford, it was SOP to use 'both ends' simultaneously.
On a visit there one day from Farnborough, I was treated to the sight of a Hunter doing 1 in 1s to runway 08 with a Boeing 720 of Monarch crew training doing visual circuits, a Comet doing ILS approaches and an Andover doing 5.5 deg MLS approaches all on runway 26, all aircraft being told to 'go around and break left' at their respective threshold.