Originally Posted by
LTNman
Yep that is the grass runway in question. The other grass runway that was almost parallel to the main runway was the first to close for reasons unknown.
LTNman. I could be wrong here but I suspect that 06/24 grass was closed when the hard taxiway was built to the new hangar near the old LFC and Helitech hangars. The taxiway was partially constructed and then left moribund for some time, as I suspect you probably recall. Some of the wags in ATC used to refer to it as 'The Raisbeck memorial parkway'.
06/24 was pretty notorious for aquiring rabbit holes overnight but was also very popular with certain individuals on the morning surface inspection for producing an excellent crop of field mushrooms. I did a number of dual circuits on it with Steve Pugh and it was an excellent runway for teaching tyro pilots how to handle short field technique as it had massive run-offs at either end.