The RAF in Suffolk

John Cooper · John Cooper

It is quite easy to load your own photos on to these pages you just tick the box at the bottom of the page where it says Attach Images, please only load your own photos or photos that you have got permission to use These can be photos of the days when you were stationed here or the immediate area [aviation rel...

John Cooper · John Cooper

There is no doubting the hard work and fund raising that went into making MH Control Tower the Museum it is today. If any casual passer by just happens to pick up on this message whilst surfing the internet and you are in the A12 Trunk Road area East of Ipswich do pay this piece of history a visit [check for o...

John Cooper · John Cooper

There is nothing more evocative to me than to hear the roar of a Merlin engine, as I did today at 1155hrs, perhaps it was The Grace Spitfire being tested I do not know. But the very first prototype was tested in Suffolk at Martlesham Heath so I am putting together a collection of Spitfire photographs for y...

John Cooper · John Cooper

As most of you know the Queen has an 'Official Birthday' where the Armed Forces of the UK put on a Trooping the Ceremony Colour and other pageantry including a flypast over Buckingham Palace when most of the Royal Family gather to take the 'salute' This always occurs at 1300hrs on the second Saturday in...

tarkey · tarkey

You may well laugh but who knows. There are always ghost tales around an old airfield and Martlesham Heath is no different. There are tales of an airman in an Irvine Jacket playing the fruit machines in the Police HQ canteen I know of some one very recently when visiting the tower got a name and when check...

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	Photos: Then & Now ( 1 2 3 4 5 … 17 ) done (Preview) It is quite easy to load your own photos on to these pages you just tick the box at the bottom of the page where it says Attach Images, please only load your own photos or photos that you have got permission to use These can be photos of the days when you were stationed here or the immediate area [aviation rel...	John Cooper	83	27310	Apr 11, 2022 by John Cooper
	The Control Tower-Then and Now ( 1 2 3 4 5 ) done (Preview) There is no doubting the hard work and fund raising that went into making MH Control Tower the Museum it is today. If any casual passer by just happens to pick up on this message whilst surfing the internet and you are in the A12 Trunk Road area East of Ipswich do pay this piece of history a visit [check for o...	John Cooper	23	11570	Jul 27, 2015 by John Cooper
	The Spitfire Remembered ( 1 2 3 4 5 … 8 ) (Preview) There is nothing more evocative to me than to hear the roar of a Merlin engine, as I did today at 1155hrs, perhaps it was The Grace Spitfire being tested I do not know. But the very first prototype was tested in Suffolk at Martlesham Heath so I am putting together a collection of Spitfire photographs for y...	John Cooper	38	4876	Mar 21, 2012 by John Cooper
	The Queen's Birthday Flypast done (Preview) As most of you know the Queen has an 'Official Birthday' where the Armed Forces of the UK put on a Trooping the Ceremony Colour and other pageantry including a flypast over Buckingham Palace when most of the Royal Family gather to take the 'salute' This always occurs at 1300hrs on the second Saturday in...	John Cooper	0	2414	Jun 12, 2011 by John Cooper
	Ghosts ( 1 2 ) done (Preview) You may well laugh but who knows. There are always ghost tales around an old airfield and Martlesham Heath is no different. There are tales of an airman in an Irvine Jacket playing the fruit machines in the Police HQ canteen I know of some one very recently when visiting the tower got a name and when check...	tarkey	6	7106	Sep 28, 2009 by John Cooper
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