FROM KIRSTY WESTFIELD, NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE COUNCIL
Phil Bonner, from Aviation Heritage Lincolnshire, will be giving this first talk of the year. He will bring back to life the history of Lincolnshire airfields in World War One.
Tickets cost £5 and are on sale now. This includes hot refreshments on arrival. Get your tickets from Brigg Tourist Information Centre (in the Buttercross - Market Place) or Waters’ Edge Visitor Centre in Barton-upon-Humber.
Coun Rob Waltham, Cabinet Member for Tourism, said: “The aviation heritage talks provide a brilliant insight into the Northern Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire aviation history. Our area has a strong aviation legacy that the Northern Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage project aims to raise awareness of and bring back to life.
“If you are an aviation enthusiast and interested in the history behind it, this talk is highly recommended. Make sure you don’t miss out and get your tickets from Brigg Tourist Information Centre or Waters’ Edge Visitor Centre.”
The Northern Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage project celebrates the wartime heritage of the area, linking it to airfields with sites further south in Lincolnshire and commemorating ‘Bomber County’.
There are eight World War Two airfields across Northern Lincolnshire from RAF Sandtoft in the west to RAF Grimsby to the east. Each of these airfields played an important role during the war and has its own unique story to tell, like RAF Goxhill which was the first British Station given over to American control, or RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey, which was home to the famous Eagle Squadron.
The airfields that form part of the project are:
- RAF Elsham Wolds
- RAF Goxhill
- RAF Grimsby (Waltham Airfield)
- RAF Hibaldstow
- RAF Kirmington
- RAF Kirton in Lindsey
- RAF North Killingholme
- RAF Sandtoft
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| A Lancaster fly-past at Hibaldstow's former WW2 air base |
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