@ T-21
Tim, I lived at Manby and always remember the piston Provosts flying over my infant school at Grimoldby. My father was at Strubby on the Canberras and Dominies later. They shared a hangar with the Meteors,on the southern side of the airfield.
The Meteors had gone when I arrived in 65 ... replaced by the Manby JPs, of course. The Canberras ["2 Sqn"] for the SpecN/StaffN School at Manby had moved to the hangar out on the East Side [Sqn Ldr John Sweet, later OC 85 Sqn at Binbrook]. The South side became all Varsity.
We still had the occasional Meteor ... Sgt Pilot B****** c/s 69 used to come up from Chivenor every Friday, to be met in the 2 Sqn dispersal by his tottie in her Jaguar Mk II, and would depart first thing on Monday to get the jet back to Chiv in time for their 2nd wave
