VOLUNTEERS from the RAF Harrowbeer Interest Group (HIG) will take their airfield exhibition to two events during August.
They will be at the Buckland Monachorum Village Hall coffee morning on Saturday August 9 from 10am to noon. And on the Bank Holiday weekend, August 23, 24 and 25 they will be at Knightstone Tea Rooms for the 'Harrowbeer Weekend'.
On view at both events will be photographs, documents and artefacts about RAF Harrowbeer. HIG volunteers will offer free guided walks around the airfield at 1.30pm on each afternoon. The walk lasts approximately three hours and covers most of the airfield's remains.
RAF Harrowbeer was operational between 1941 and 1946. Many different nationalities flew from Harrowbeer, mostly RAF Squadrons but also Fleet Air Arm and US Navy. The airfield was eventually demolished in1961 following the decision that it would not become a 'new' Plymouth Airport.
The group is still keen to hear from any airfield staff, or from families who lived in the airfield's huts in the 1960s and 70s. Anyone with information can either contact HIG members Stephen Fryer (01822) 855336 or Brian Salt on 01822 852867, or visit http://www.rafharrowbeer.co.uk">www.rafharrowbeer.co.uk