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A certain ex PM and his wife Cherie live in Wooton Underwood House which is very close to Westcott. The house used to belong to Sir John Guildgood.
The Great Train robbers hung out at a farm just outside Brill 30 years ago this week!
A lot of money has been spent on development at Wescott over the last couple of years, some sort of distribution centre.
The £50 billion HS2 new railway track will run very close to Westcott.

Just a few bits of useless info!

Great train robbery was August 1963!

Good rocket work still being done there:

"When the US space agency's latest probe to Jupiter tries to enter into orbit around the planet on Tuesday, it will be relying on a British rocket engine."

Juno mission: British rocket engine ready for Jupiter task - BBC News

I was an apprentice at RPE westcott 1967 to 1971

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Originally Posted by bobos (Post 7984194)

Hi,

you say that RAF Westcott closed in 1946 but my dad says he was there in the early 50's as an RAF Cpl in the tower. He did National Service then and told me that there used to be some of the german V bombers there for testing because he still has the magnification lens from one of them. He also said that the staff there nicked most of the war exhibits and lots of stuff seemed to strangely disappear.
Is there any assocation of westcott veterans ??

RAF Westcott did close then but then the airfield became RPE Westcott and aircraft (usually a Dominie - the 'original' type not the later HS125 derivative - or Marathon but sometimes the Hastings might be used) from RAE Farnborough and later RAE Bedford (initially Twinwoods Farm but later Thurleigh) would land there occasionally if a 'boffin' needed transport to/from one of those airfields.

In the last month there was a Chinook out of Westcott late evening, headed back to Odiham