Back in the mid to late 1960's we had the police turn up at our school in Chingford and "arrest" a couple of the kids.balders wrote:
With exception of the officers mess all buildings at Horchurch have gone with a school and tescos built on the Tech site. The airfield was turned over to gravel extraction but is now a country park. Some pillboxes and e pens remain on the perimeter. The gates to RAF hornchurch are now at the entrance to the RAF chapel Biggin Hill.
We never got to the bottom of it as EVERYONE was tight lipped but one of the lads lived in Hornchurch and the rumor was the pair of them had found weapons of some sort on the old airfield site.
They had been reported hence the police turning up at the school.
How much truth there is in this I don't know but they WERE taken away by plod as the whole playground decended on the police cars to see what was going on
Also related to Hornchurch, Fairlop ?
And stapleford Tawny for North Weald, Stapleford remains as a flying club I believe.