This is a link to a little place I found at the weekend www.stowmaries.com

I think some of you may be interested, particularly Zup.


Bit of background - this is an old WW1 aerodrome that had been abandoned after the hostilities and subsequently wasn't redeveloped for WW2 use, so has lain relatively dormant since, except for the occasional use by the farmer who owned it.
The site was put up for sale a few years ago and could have been lost under new housing or flattened for a lorry park but was bought by a couple of guys, who I believe flew helicopters, and they have now started restoring the site.
Quite a lot has been done already like draining the flying field and structural work on some of the building - indeed a few of the buildings have been fully restored to how they would have been at the onset of WW1 and the field is operational.
Just thought it would be good for you to see an actual WW1 site and the associated buildings !


I took a few photos on the day so if anyone is interested I will post those too.

Just hope the link works because I haven't done this before so if not, can one of you guys or girls give me some advice ?


Regards, Steve aka the yellow belly

Link works great! Wow, those guys are really doing a great job, they actually landed a Sopwith Camel at the site for the first time in 90 years. Tanks for posting this!

Their website has quite a collection of historical information!


Can not beliee they are also restoring trucks(Lorries) with mannequin personnel for the real experience. A kind of living museum!


Try and posts the pics you made!

Thanks for the reply M4rtin

I'll try and post some photos tonight from my pc because it's easier to see what I'm doing.

They had a fly-in over the weekend and quite a few 1/3rd scale models were having a bit of a fly-about in between the full size aircraft. Might recognise 1 or 2 . . .

Good stuff YB! Like it. Again this is the perfect kinda thing to post. Please post your pics too.

Thanks again,
PH

Yellow, I sent this over to Joaquin and the team to take a look at. Thanks again for this post!

Great Thread, Thanks for the info Yellow Belly

Thanks for the replies guys !

Yes, I should have sent a link to Zup, M4rtin. Thanks for doing that for me !

www.dropbox.com/sc/18pt3bkh1br6qys/BDnMyvKiGv


Can anyone see this photo ?

if so I'll post a few more !

Very Nice! It looks like this, I had to re-size the picture to 768 to get it to post.



I e-mailed Joaquin and he loved the site!