Just a quck question please. Went past Ashbourne airfield ( as was ) yesterday, albeit for the first time in a van and thus high enough to see over the perimeter from the A52--so I was curious as to the history of the place given that for a WW11 airfield, there seemed to be a lot of concrete and quite a large / wide runway. Given the local weather however, I would imagine it was a "fun" place to try to get into at times. No personal reason for asking, other than I am always intrigued by old airfields and their history. Every time I drive through Burtonwood for example I wonder what it used to be like---although many years ago as a space cadet, some misguided instructor sent me solo there and I duly repaid his confidence by er, landing very skillfully
coughs on my second solo amongst a large collection of 45 gal drums some fool had elected to store on an old dispersal--could have happened to anyone of course !
