WARTIME artefacts, photographs and a Spitfire flypast will be just some of the attractions on offer to visitors at the RAF Harrowbeer Archive open weekend this weekend.

Michael and Lucy Hayes will be holding the open weekend at Knightstone Tea Rooms over the bank holiday weekend, August 25, 26 and 27, from 11am to 5pm daily.

On view will be photographs, artefacts and documents about life at Harrowbeer, together with living history displays and wartime military vehicles. There will also be a special treat on Saturday only, when there will be a flypast from a Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Spitfire at approximately 2pm, weather permitting.

Volunteers from the RAF Harrowbeer Interest Group will be opening the air-raid shelter in the restored dispersal bay to visitors and have their photographic display about the airfield on show.

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 demolished in 1961 following the decision that it would not become a 'new' Plymouth airport. Today, visitors will be mostly aware of the airfield's existence, alongside the A386 at Yelverton, by the taxi-ways and the aircraft bays that are virtually as they were 60 years ago.

Entrance to the open weekend event and all the attractions is free and there is ample parking. For more information, contact Michael Hayes on 01822 853679 or visit http://www.rafharrowbeer-dartmoor.org.uk">www.rafharrowbeer-dartmoor.org.uk

For more information about the airfield itself, visit http://www.rafharrowbeer.co.uk">www.rafharrowbeer.co.uk or contact Stephen Fryer on 01822 855336.