herkman,
Col, it is nice to hear of a firm behaving in the way nearly all firms did 70 years ago. The Customer was King then: the ones who chose to forget this soon went out of business...D.
Ormeside,
The whole glider business has always seemed highly fraught to me. A forced landing every time ! Not for this child !......D.
Chugalug,
Thanks for the two links. It is nice to see that the first pic in the first one was of a Stearman over the WW2 camp, and I suppose a "Juvenile Correctional Facility" was not all that far away from a USAAC Flight School !
There has been an enormous amount of new building in the second link, but an outline of the old circle was still visible, but I couldn't see the old swimming pool, which was in the exact centre as I recall. But it was all a long, long time ago; and memory does play strange tricks, as we both know all too well....D.
Cheers, all. Danny.