In 1974 RAF Manby in Lincolnshire became a victim of the defence cuts and closed after a long period of faithful service.

It had opened in 1939 as No.1 Air Armament School and many armament officers, bomb aimers, air-gunners and armourers passed through Manby. The School used many kinds of aircraft and it was an extremely busy station during the war years. Post-war the station housed the College of Air Warfare with their Varsity aircraft, which were later replaced by Jet Provosts.

After the closure of the airfield, a group of workmen from the Luton and Dunstable area, came to Manby on contract to prepare the three C type (Hipped) seven bay hangars; and two aircraft repair sheds, for use as grain stores for the EEC Intervention Board.

The workmen would travel up each Monday morning and go home each Friday evening - during the week they ate and slept in a caravan, which they had brought and parked on the concrete apron near one of the hangars.

Each day they would visit the sub-Post Office and General Stores at Manby. This was just outside the station and was then run by Edward (Ted) Marcham; who had arrived about 18 months prior to the closing down of operations at RAF Manby.

Ted Marcham came in contact with hundreds of people every week and he got to know the workmen who were a cheerful, lively lot, well travelled and obviously quite happy with their work. Two of them were Italians that had ... The rest of this story along with other interesting, chilling and thought provoking true stories can be found in the book Ghost Stations™ 1

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