Granby Halls Fair 1958

[mickyhoss]

Hollands Dodgems

 

[borebage53]

I can remember being taken to an Open Day at RAF Bruntingthorpe when the USAF was there. Hollands Fair was there that day. It would have been a similar time to your picture post,Micky. I would have been 5 or 6 years old at the time so I would say around 1959. I bumped my head on the dodgems and I can remember a huge uniformed Yank with a crew cut rushing over to see if I was OK and help me back to Mum and Dad. Candy floss and coca-cola arrived fairly quickly!
USAF left Bruntingthorpe in August 1962. It was the overflow base for one US Squadron at the time as the ‘satellite’ airfield for their other 2 Squadrons at RAF Alconbury near Huntingdon.
It was the Americans who lengthened the runway from one mile to 2 miles to accomodate their heavy bombers.
19th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron of 10th TR Wing who flew B-47 Stratojets and later Douglas RB-66B “Destroyers”.
General De Gaulle had kicked all the foreign nuclear capability Air Forces out of France so most of them came back to Britain!

 

[borebage53]

….I think it was the red dodgem car in your picture that bumped my head,Micky!

 

[tudor_fox]

Is that Brendan in car 9?

 

[borebage53]

Is that Brendan in car 9?

“Follow that black sedan”……on the road to nowhere!

 

[George Ferris]

I can remember being taken to an Open Day at RAF Bruntingthorpe when the USAF was there. Hollands Fair was there that day. It would have been a similar time to your picture post,Micky. I would have been 5 or 6 years old at the time so I would say around 1959. I bumped my head on the dodgems and I can remember a huge uniformed Yank with a crew cut rushing over to see if I was OK and help me back to Mum and Dad. Candy floss and coca-cola arrived fairly quickly!
USAF left Bruntingthorpe in August 1962. It was the overflow base for one US Squadron at the time as the ‘satellite’ airfield for their other 2 Squadrons at RAF Alconbury near Huntingdon.
It was the Americans who lengthened the runway from one mile to 2 miles to accomodate their heavy bombers.
19th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron of 10th TR Wing who flew B-47 Stratojets and later Douglas RB-66B “Destroyers”.
General De Gaulle had kicked all the foreign nuclear capability Air Forces out of France so most of them came back to Britain!

My old man was based there in 58, he was a yank

 

[borebage53]

My old man was based there in 58, he was a yank

Wonderful. Perhaps he might have helped a distressed little kid on the dodgems!

 

[George Ferris]

He might well have done, unfortunately he soon fucked off never to be seen again

 

[borebage53]

He might well have done, unfortunately he soon fucked off never to be seen again

Oh dear. That’s sad.

 

[George Ferris]

Ah well . Worse shit happens. I was brought up by my mum and had a great childhood.

 

[bnet]

Went school with 2 of the owners sons, apparently they own most of Scarborough now.