Sounds like Perranporth to me, as it was possible to drive on to the main runway off the very broken track that lead to Cligga Head. This was the end that housed the Gliding Club and also the location of a post war hangar. The ends of the runway were a bit tatty, but a couple of hundred yard on, the tarmac was very good and indeed was suitable for licensing in the 90's. There was no fence across the end of runway 23 as the Gliding Club at the time had to tow their machines onto the airfield via this location.
At some time a simple car tyres (wired together) structure used to be dragged across the runway end to prevent people driving onto the site, but frequently this was open if gliding was in operation. Years later a huge pair of gates were erected to secure the airfield as part of the licensing requirement.
Most people thought the Perranporth runways were bad because they only saw the very ends, but in fact 85% of the runways were fine as the airfield had a been 'serviced' in the 50's to allow commercial flying. The watch office (control tower) at the St Agnes end was reactivated in the 90's having been used as a cow shed for decades. Despite a huge battle with the local authority at the time who tried to impose restrictions of movements, a public enquiry threw this out,and the airfield is still active plus has a new hangar to protect the machines based there. TREADS if you are reading this you can post the image of the Spitfire replica (flying out of Perranporrth on test) complete with makings of a squadron based there in the war.
Last edited by POBJOY; 5th May 2020 at 10:10.