Bomber Command
From Lacey Green History
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The Site
The headquarters and officers houses were built on the north side of the Walters Ash to Bradenham Road and are in the parish of Lacey Green, their children attending Lacey Green School
The servicemen and women lived in Walters Ash, where a NAFFI, church and playing fields were also constructed. Land was acquired for this :-
3rd May 1940. Mrs Ishbel Ridgley sold eleven and a half acres of Speen Farm. click Ishbel MacDonald for more about Ishbel.
Land for school (site 3) from Mrs Emma Grace
90 acres compulsory purchase from Bradenham Estate
September 1941. Land for sports field site 4 from C W Raffety for Walters Ash Farm.
Hallmark April 1968. 1968 Strike Command formed by mergers.
Hallmark April 1975. 1975 Strike Command becomes the Headquarters of U.K. Air Forces.
Hallmark April 1985. 1985 RAF Main Gates, Strike Command Research by Miles Marshall.
Hallmark February 1987. The New RAF Operations Centre. (An exhibition giving the history of this RAF Command Centre from its inception.)
click RAF Local Residents for details of these men and women.
-The headquarters and officers houses were built on the north side of Walters Ash to Bradenham Road and are
in the parish of Lacey Green, their children attending Lacey Green School
The majority of the servicemen and women lived in Walters Ash, where a NAFFI, church and playing fields were also constructed.
-3rd May 1940. Mrs Ishbel Ridgley sold eleven and a half acres of Speen Farm. click Ishbel MacDonald for more about Ishbel.
Land for school (site 3) from Mrs Emma Grace
90 acres compulsory purchase from Bradenham Estate
September 1941. Land for sports field site 4 from C W Raffety for Walters Ash Farm.