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Old 24th April 2002 | 11:45
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Pom Pax
 
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From: Kalgoorlie, W.A. , Australia
Gatwick was purpose built in 50s on the site of Gatwick race course being adjacent to a main railway line and a proposed motorway.
Hounslow.....Hounslow Heath
Cambridge Marshall's
Nutts Corner was this the civil name for R.A.F. Aldergrove or a seperate airfield. We had parked the other way round I might have known all I could see out of my window was a drizzley Irish day and a hare stareing at me across the grass.

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