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Old 17th Nov 2023, 17:56
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Hi Chev 'The Fence' around the Kenley peri track is 'substantial' and not glider friendly. Treads will know but there are a multitude of gates built in which are supposed to be locked when gliding takes place. Apart from it being a danger for overruns it defaced the original wartime peri track which served through the BoB until they built the B..... fence. Nerds in control again, had Kenley stayed in Surrey it would not have happened. Surrey was proud of Kenley (A common that became a battleground ) 'especially on 18th Aug 1940'. History has shown us that the B O B was a defining point in WW2 because its outcome determined all that followed, and Kenley was an example of how fragile our defences were, relying on prewar stations with few defences or bomb proof buildings. Well, Kenley survived 1940, and then hit back in 41 on when we started on the over the channel raids. It deserves better.
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