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By: 22nd June 2019 at 20:03 Permalink - Edited 22nd June 2019 at 22:11
-Interesting, thank you!
If you look here: 52°04'31.17" N 0°03'54.41" E on Google Earth and find the 2007 imagery you'll see cropmarks from the original Fowlmere airfield - it's at the southern end of its WW2 version. I think on the disused WW2 airfields FaceAche page, someone came up with a link to photos of the demolition circa 1920 as well. Somewhere I have a photo of an aircrew sergeant which I think is from there as well... but where?
ETA - I've searched that group and can't find it. I know the discussion was relatively recent so it's out there on the intertubes somewhere... good luck finding it!
Adrian
By: 23rd June 2019 at 08:13 Permalink - Edited 23rd June 2019 at 08:35
-Just love the 1753 milepost in its 1917 coat of paint, and today showing its age with a patina of lichen and mellowed colouring.
Classic 'Flypast Forum' conundrum here.
The conundrum here is, do I rush out with wire brush, chisel and pots of spray paint to 'restore' it to its condition 100 years ago; do I erect a brown 'tourist information' sign next to it, declaring it to be one of the oldest stone mileage posts in post Roman Britain, or do I dig it up and take into a museum? Restore to 'new', preserve 'as is', or display out of context dry and safe in a museum? I'd leave it there, protected by its own isolation, as a stone it could still be there in a thousand years - it has already clocked up a quarter of that.
There is no correct answer, but no doubt lots of conflicting opinion. As this is stone not wood, metal and fabric, perhaps best to leave the subject (and the mile stone) alone.
By: 24th June 2019 at 07:22 Permalink
-I'd throw a fresh coat of paint on it.... pukka whitewash though.
By: 29th June 2019 at 23:43 Permalink
-Then and now taken today. Quite fitting that the current runway is where the old hut once stood.
I do wonder if it was removed during WWII and replaced later as it's current location would have put it on the southern edge of the East West runway as it crossed the road back then. Not something you would want at the edge of a runway!
Nice bit of history regardless
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By: ZRX61 - 22nd June 2019 at 18:20
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