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He would try to take charge of the carriage and go where he thought best rather than
where the bride had paid us to take her.
Back at the airfield where we had come to live.

Great Steeping was the village and during the course of World War 2, Spilsby Airfield had
been created to form an even greater part of the huge Bomber Command organisation
within the County of Lincolnshire.

Two squadrons of Lancaster were based on the site for the later part of the War and large
pieces of runway and redundant buildings still remained over the huge still relatively flat
landscape.
Our home was on WAAF camp two, the living quarters for the Women’s section based on
the site. The actual runways and control/administration buildings were only some 40 yards
to the north and extended for about two miles to east and another mile to the north.

Aircrew picture during WW2 at Spilsby.

The favourite route used for exercising the horses meant travelling along the connecting
road to the main site, (Sandy lane) turning right and along the old perimeter track to the
east.