Category: Tollerton Airfield

Not sent your objections in yet? You can use our ‘how to respond to the SPD’ information (just use your own words). Click here and select the reasons you want to object from the list!

You can use our ‘how to respond to the SPD’ information (just use your own words). Click here and select the reasons you want to object from the list!

Quite a few people have asked us what the best way is of objecting to the Rushcliffe Borough Council supplementary planning document (SPD) for the land north of Tollerton. Now, you have to write your objections in your own words, obviously, but to help you get your head around what RBC have got wrong, we’ve…

Our archivist has uncovered a stunning aerial photograph of RAF Tollerton, taken in 1944. The photo shows some of the scale of Burn, Bash, and Bury where you can clearly see burn marks around the airfield on (and off) the dispersals. This valuable photograph shows some of the scale of the wholesale destruction of RAF…

A few of the Save Nottingham Airport Group (SNAG) know I’m slightly obsessed with the land opposite the former location of the Bellman Hangar (aka The Bridge Hangar), where Tollerton Park Estate now sits. My obsession stems from the fact that our first spaniel and I attended puppy training in a building which (my senses…

We hinted that we had discovered information about a site opposite the airfield (on the west side of Tollerton Lane) and here’s where we back that statement up. Our archivist has dug deeper and found a plan of RAF buildings on what is now Hill Farm/the dog training centre. This is the location where a…

One of the most common questions we’re asked is where, on Tollerton airfield, were the many post-war heavy bombers destroyed in the well-documented Burn, Bash, and Bury process? Many people think the destruction of over 1,000 aircraft took place in specific areas such as either inside, or very near to, the aircraft hangars. You might…

One of the many interesting items our archivist has uncovered is a Russian map of RAF Tollerton and wait a minute… A Russian map? Of RAF Tollerton? Is it genuine? Well, yes it is. A member of Save Nottingham Airfield Group (SNAG) who has (British) military experience of Russian charts has examined it and says…

The airfield at Tollerton has a long and interesting history which has been fairly well documented by local residents, but our own archivist has recently turned up information which seems not to be widely known. I think we all knew about the airfield’s defences from airborne attack, and the heavy-duty gun emplacements on the airfield.…

It wasn’t just Handley Paige Hampdens and Avro Lancasters that got scrapped at RAF Tollerton. Aerial pictures from Historic England, taken in 1944, show the range of aircraft which were scrapped, and just some of the locations where the burning, bashing (and burying?) took place. These locations include the land that Vistry want to build…