Gransden lodge airfield history books

The route to cycle from cambridge to the cambridge gliding centre at gransden lodge airfield. A typical wartime station, well dispersed and unusually set away from roads and amidst fields, it had the customary three runways, 036of 2,000yards and two of 1,400yards. Trials of gee, the navigation aid, were conducted from gransden lodge. The raf station closed in 1955 and it was also used for some motor races, including the 1st postwar motor race in the uk on the th july 1947. There were twot2hangars and a bl, along with 36 hardstandings. Gransden lodge opened in april 1942 as an operational raf bomber command station called raf gransden lodge with. The airfields was home to no 1474 flight from july 1942 who were later renames 192.

Gransden lodge airfield history when gransden lodge first became operational in 1942, the two units that were initially assigned to the new station were both involved in topsecret work related to radar. The raf station closed in 1955 and it was also used for some motor races, including the first major postwar motor race in the uk on 15 june 1946. He got a welcoming pamphlet from his predecessors that said in part. Gransden lodge airfield is a former wartime airfield located 10. When the airfield first became operational, the units that were stationed there were involved in topsecret radar investigation and trials work, but within a year these units had moved away and the station became the base of the only canadian squadron in the r. Cycle to gransden lodge airfield from cambridge part 1. At the gliding club they were met by chris sullivan, author of the book trials and tribulation, which tells the story of the airfield. Picture by the author who was more intent on photographing the ga airfield little gransden seen in the foreground. At the end of 1945 the airfield was transferred to transport command but the last operational squadron was disbanded in february 1946. Charlie arrived in great gransden, a tiny hamlet in sandy, which was part of bedfordshire in huntingdonshire county, 11 miles west of cambridge in early july 1944. Operations book showing the declaration of a state of war figure 10. Bases of bomber command then and now after the battle.

Media in category raf gransden lodge the following 2 files are in this category, out of 2 total. Split into seven operational groups, the airfields of bomber command formed the. Elevation map showing the topography of bassingbourn airfield and surrounding. My camera ran out of battery before reaching the end.

Then, the area was dotted with airfields from which allied aircraft flew to war and one of these was gransden lodge. Chris talked to them about the airfield and had also set up a display. Gransden lodge opened as a satellite of tempsford early in 1942. Gransden lodge airfield is located in cambridgeshire. Doc the land usage, location and morphology of cambridgeshire. Gransden lodge airfield, cambridge, cambridgeshire. Waterbeach 194063 7 gransden lodge 194255 16 mepal 194363 8 bourn 194148. The main reason for not getting closer to gransden lodge is that, quite rightly, the gliding fraternity take a dim view of light aircraft busting through their area of operations without. Gransden lodge opened in april 1942 as an operational raf bomber command station called raf gransden lodge with three concrete runways. Gransden lodge airfield news newspapers books scholar jstor april 20 learn how and. Raf gransden lodge in the second world war 19391945 the. Egmj is an unlicensed airfield located near the village of little gransden, 5 nm 9. John and val then escorted them up to gransden lodge airfield, home base of the squadron during world war 2.