Old photo and looks like a greyhound. My first thought was Mick the Miller, but that leads me to Dereham and neither Shipdham nor Swanton seem to fit.

Was it pre WW2 only?

Thought it might be near Killeagh Co Offaly , where he was born but no cigar..............

Not a Greyhound and not contemporaneous with the airfield which closed in 1919. I think it's a long, long way from Killeagh(ary) - not that I know where Killeagh is !

I presume the golf course still exists? Looks like a links course, so by the seaside?

added: Aldeburgh Airfield (first name in the UK Airfields list for Suffolk - thank goodness it wasn't Yoxford)

1923 The First Pond Yachting Site.



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Photo credit: Royal Air Force Museum.

Good Hunch nvubu - Aldeburgh (Hazelwood) Aerodrome is correct. I must admit I had no idea until a month or two ago that there had been an airfield at Aldeburgh.

Putting a bit of flesh on the bone: RNAS Aldeburgh Night Landing Ground commissioned October 1915. Later (1918) RAF Anti Submarine Observers' School - closed 1919.


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One of the School's three Blackburn Kangaroos at Aldeburgh. Photo credit Geoff Dewing with thanks.


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Credit Mick Davis Cross & Cockade.

I believe there is nothing in the way of buildings on the former aerodrome to be seen today - the last, adjacent to the A1049, being demolished some years back. Buildings, building materials and plant (including a light railway) were auctioned off at the aerodrome on June 27th and 28th 1919. Many wooden building components including The Officers' Quarters were transported to Thorpeness Common where they were re-erected as 'The Uplands'. They can still be found today:https://www.thorpenessandaldringhamh...-blancheflower

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Time for a Snifter !


There was a nasty collision between two DH6 aeroplanes while air-testing on May 24th 1919 when three of the four occupants lost their lives.


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(Ipswich Museum)

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Photo credit: Great War Forum.



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Overlooking the Yacht Pond. Stolen - Recast - Recovered. 'The Borough' now has two Snooks.



Further Reading: 'Air Station Aldeburgh' Written and published by Geoff Dewing 1998. IBSN 0 9526416 2 3. My thanks to him for allowing me to reproduce material from this book.

Over to you nvubu !

Thanks - it was a pure fluke that I started with Suffolk.

Where was the first photo of the boating pond taken, as I'm fairly sure it isn't the current one.

Now for the next challenge

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Re Boating Pond - it was a postcard. Certainly not that of today. Looking at the scene I would guess that it was taken somewhere in the vicinity of where Aldeburgh Yacht Club is today i.e. south of the town and looking SSW across the River Alde. Cheers.

That's where I thought it probably was - but on the 1945 overhead on GE, there doesn't seem to be anything there .

Re my challenge

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are we in N France?

Yes - North eastern France

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Bessonneau hangers I think - but that's not a great help

Did the Germans ever operate from here in WW1?

Got to post the photos that don't give much help at first so that it can't be solved too quickly - I'll post an aerial in a couple of hours.

The aerodrome was built in 1918, and I don't think that the Germans got this far west during WW1.

"Got to post the photos that don't give much help at first so that it can't be solved too quickly"

I thought I'd got it on the second picture but a close look at my image showed the hangars were a bit closer together..............

Now for an aerial

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Posted upside down to get the north upwards?

Nope - north is at about 3 o'clock

or nine o'clock here :ok:

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Lucky quick find on Google
Epiez

Well it almost lasted 24 hours - hence the overheads last :)

Epiez it is.

Over to you SLB

Thanks Nvubu,
I am not to far into the WW1 airfields but the aerials were quite distinctive.
You were right to put the other photos first.
What is the first photo supposed to camouflage?

Now this one
Sadly only a Google overhead to show but got the remainder completely within the name of the game:

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Yes distinctive and still recognisable today. The photo doesn't have a title, just a number as it's description, but I think that they are the gun butts for testing the machine guns.

I'd hazard a guess that your challenge is a fly in community in the USA?

Thanks a gun butt makes sense.

Fly in community; perhaps
private: certainly
USA: no, it is east of London

Below the only other photo on the net found under same location reference:

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Phew - I don't have to go through this site Fly-In Communities accross the United States and Canada (bifold.com) :)

No more guesses from me for a while though

East of London UK,but not in UK,and a long way ....?

Indeed not UK
A long way from the UK but not so far from East of London.

Sounding like a politician Bear - ... east of London ?? or East London in South Africa? there are a few fly-in communities around that part of the world

Kwelega Road Airstrip 32 54 07S 28 02 55 E
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The nearest name on Google Earth is Kwelega. NE of East London.
I'd spent a few hours scouring the area NE of London Ontario.
OH if correct.

think i got in by 60 seconds...................... :E

Already thought East of London would give it away.

It is in the name of the game to give each challenge a name.

You both (or others) have 5 hours left.

The name of the strip that Asturias found correctly,
Can be found in Google earth/ maps when you zoom in to about East London area and search for “airstrip”

I was hinting on Whats landing.

Next episode of Which Aerodrome is for Asturias to fill.

Let's see - a change of location I think - the scenery is nice but not a major tourist location.....................

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18 hours and nobody's had a shot yet! I'll kick off with a guess at the mountain range at least... Is this somewhere in the Caucasus?

These days things aren't as frantic as a couple of years back JD. It is a mountain range but it's not the Caucasus quite a ways from there. A couple of scheduled internal flights a day but quite a few private/charter movements

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North Africa ?

No not in Africa.

The place has I'm sure produced many famous sons & daughters but there's only one who might be recognised on here - and not by name but by the tune wot he wrote (and that's probably only an older subset of PPrune)

Spanish language
perhaps Maya culture?
Central America?

Spanish is one of the languages spoken here Bear although they do also speak a local language

It isn't Mayan nor in C America. Unfortunately, due to local history, it doesn't really attract many people who don't have to go there

The song referred to above is over 100 years old and has, more recently, a (very tenuous link) to a UK railway station via the USA

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