First used during the First World War when it was called Harpswell after the small hamlet that lay at the southern end of the airfield.

After the First World War the site was reclaimed for agricultural use and all traces of the airfield were soon eradicated ... but not the ghosts.

In the early 1930's the site was selected to serve the expanding Royal Air Force and work began on building an airfield. It was one of the earliest of the Expansion Bomber bases.

The new bomber airfield, known as Hemswell after the village immediately to its west, opened in January 1937 in Number 5 Group, Bomber Command.

During the war years the main flying units were 61 and 144 Squadrons at the start of the war; then arrived two Polish squadrons, No.300 and No.301.

Another Polish Squadron, No.305, joined them. In the summer of 1943 the Polish Squadrons moved to Ingham in Lincolnshire and Hemswell closed for several months while the runways were laid.

The airfield re-opened in January 1944 when No.1 Group Lancaster Finishing School (LFS) arrived and remained non-operational until November 1944 when No.1 LFS moved out to be replaced by two Lancaster Squadrons.

After the war Hemswell remained a bomber airfield for many years; then, in the Sixties it was used for training until vacated by the Royal Air Force in 1967.

Early one morning in 1972 a delivery driver was nearing the entrance to RAF Hemswell on the A631 when he suddenly had to brake sharp when two airmen in flying clothes crossed in front of him.

The driver screeched to a stop and his anger turned to amazement, then fear, when the two airmen turned to look at him and then vanished.

Jim and Molly Thompson also had a similar encounter with the ghost airmen ... The rest of this story along with other interesting, chilling and thought provoking true stories can be found in the book Ghost Stations™ The Story

This story has been specially formatted for the GhostStations.com Website and is intended to only serve as an example of the stories that are in the Ghost Stations books.

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200 pages and around 69 Photographs/Illustrations

ISBN-13: 978-1-871448-09-2