Mick's already waiting at the gate
Eye Airfield with Mick the Brick, Eye, Suffolk - 5th August 2020
Nosher and Mick head up to the Yaxley Cherry Tree for a beer, but rather than go the usual way through Eye and the Highfield estate, we meet up at the gate off Progress Way and cycle over the remains of the old airfield - Mick's old stomping ground for decades. Built in 1943/44 and used as a minor USAAF air base during WWII, there's still a surprising amount of surviving runway and taxiways left, at least in the parts not built over for Humphrey's massive floodlit warehouses or chicken factories.
next album: The BSCC at The Earl Soham Victoria and Station 119, Eye, Suffolk - 6th August 2020
previous album: Closed-Down Shops, Hedgehogs and Chamomile, Brome and Diss - 2nd August 2020
A bit of old taxiway or aircraft parking
Mick cycles around
There's a big makeshift wood store on the airfield
More concrete
Part of a long taxi route
A big pile of tree stumps
One of the few original drain covers still around
Footprints in the concrete from when it was built
Looking over to the old fuse store
Mick points something out
The wind turbines are massive and noisy up close
T2 - the wind turbine terminator
Mick cycles off
A pile of old oil drums
Mick roams around
Mick cycles along the main runway
A flock of ducks waddles through the stubble
Looking south towards Mendlesham
Mick heads out onto Castleton Way
A new road is built up to the A140
A load of drainage, and the new road route
A pile of pipes
Stefan at the bar in the Yaxley Cherry Tree
Stefan's dog looks around
Stefan's dog says hello to Mick
Stefan - one-time Swan regular, with dog
A stripey ginger pub cat
Mick gets his coat
Turbines in the dark
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Mick's already waiting at the gate
Mick's already waiting at the gate
A bit of old taxiway or aircraft parking
Mick cycles around
There's a big makeshift wood store on the airfield
More concrete
Part of a long taxi route
A big pile of tree stumps
One of the few original drain covers still around
Footprints in the concrete from when it was built
Looking over to the old fuse store
Mick points something out
The wind turbines are massive and noisy up close
T2 - the wind turbine terminator
Mick cycles off
A pile of old oil drums
Mick roams around
Mick cycles along the main runway
A flock of ducks waddles through the stubble
Looking south towards Mendlesham
Mick heads out onto Castleton Way
A new road is built up to the A140
A load of drainage, and the new road route
A pile of pipes
Stefan at the bar in the Yaxley Cherry Tree
Stefan's dog looks around
Stefan's dog says hello to Mick
Stefan - one-time Swan regular, with dog
A stripey ginger pub cat
Mick gets his coat
Turbines in the dark