RAF Balderton Research Group to host educational open weekend at St Giles Community HAll in Balderton
The RAF Balderton Research Group will be hosting an educational open weekend this weekend.
The weekend will take place at St Giles Community Hall in Balderton on on Saturday October 8 and Sunday 9, from 10am to 4pm.
There will be displays, book signings and talks on the history of the former wartime airfield of RAF Balderton.
Refreshments will also be available on both days at the hall.
RAF Balderton was built in the early 1940s a few miles south of Newark and stationed RAF airmen as well as squadrons from the Canadian and United States air forces during the second world war.
The airfield was used as a training base for airmen and hosted gliders which were utilised in Operation Market Garden and heavy bombers including the famous Avro Lancaster bomber.
The Bantycock quarry and part of Fernwood now occupy the site of former RAF base.