Nat Somers owned Panshanger by the early fifties.
I had heard of his stinginess but he donated a Tiger Moth to the Hertfordshire Police Flying Club which had a hut on the northern side of the airfield. This may have been a cunning plan to keep in with the local plod of course.The Tiger needed rebuilding but as an anklebiter at the time I don't know how much that involved.
In the late sixties, the resident flying club employed an engineer that for some reason Somers hated. So he could vanish when Somers visited he refurbished one of the old long-abandoned huts in the woods to use as an office.