RAF Swinderby

Swinderby is in Lincolnshire just off the A46 between Newark and Lincoln. It opened in 1940 and was a bomber command field mainly for 300 and 301 Polish Bomber Squadrons although when they left it was occupied by 455 Squadron RAAF until early 1942. For the remainder of the war it was a heavy conversion unit. Post war, into the 1960s, it was used by no. 8 Flying Training School before switching to recruit training in 1964. The final passing out parade in this respect was in July 1993 and the station closed at the end of the year. It was put up for sale in 1995. A main runway still exists but most buildings have been demolished amidst ongoing development including a new village on the old domestic site. This village does include a couple of memorials to the airfield which we went to look at. There is also a large information board detailing the airfield history which surprisingly contains a host of grammatical errors and several spelling errors - referring to Dublin in Poland instead of Dubin and a couple of references to Awro Lancasters as opposed to Avro, for example. I gather the board has been there for over 10 years so it is a surprise it has not been corrected. Anyway, a few pictures: