All the extracts are from The British Newspaper Archive. Mostly with a very brief mention of Bovingdon hence the drift...........
News Chronicle 10 November 1945
Rougham (Bury St Edmunds) Airfield. Photo: American Air Museum in Britain.
The 64th Bomb Group were still in residence at the time of the above incident. The 64th left Rougham in December 1945 having in the immediate post-war period operated leaflet drops over Europe and repatriations from Germany.
Wikipedia.
Western Morning News 27 March 1947
The American Air Force Flights came from Frankfurt and Munich. Britain was also in receipt of international aid and food parcels from Commonwealth countries such as Canada and Australia.
Hoveringham, Notts. Photo Nottingham Post.
On the 17th/18th March 1947 the River Trent over-topped its banks in Nottingham and widespread flooding affected the town and the surrounding countryside.
Yorkshire Post 28 March 1947
247 Squadron Royal Air Force were the first Squadron to operate the DH Vampire. Flying Officer Carter would have been flying an F1 Vampire. Seen here is an F3 Vampire of 247 Squadron at West Malling in September 1949.
The Courier and Advertiser 6 January 1948
The Citizen 11 January 1948
It must have been a 'No News Day' !
Manchester Evening News 18 February 1948
Wolverton Express and Bucks Weekly 25 June 1948
Pigeon Racing enjoyed a renaissance after the end of World War 11. Bovingdon operators British Nederland Air Services and Blue Air flew many Racing Pigeons to The Continent. Nederland's Dakotas would take the birds as far afield as Nantes and Cannes. Their single Miles Aerovan was also utilized for this purpose but on shorter sectors such as Bovingdon to The Channel Islands. (Later) I've just found another clipping the gist of it being that 9,000 Racing Pigeons were flown from Bovingdon to Brussels in five aeroplanes on 15 June 1951. The cost to the clubs involved worked out at 2/6d per Pigeon. Pilots were instructed to fly at 'a low level' the pigeons being averse to high altitudes. The birds were released the next day to race back to The North Country !
Photo Lep Transport History Peter Skerry
Air Transport Charter Dakota being loaded with Racing Pigeons at Gatwick c1950. This company lost Dakota G-AJBG at Bovingdon in 1948. See page 7 #128.
Mercury and Herald 27 August 1948
(I wouldn't like to have been caught riding my bike on the pavement in those days ! )
The Sheep Market in the once prosperous town of Hawick in what is now The Scottish Borders.
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