CPM - Chippenham

I lived in, and attended school here in the 1970s, having moved from near Bath in 1972.
My mother died in the early 1980s, when I was studying at CLW (near Aberystwyth).
Maybe a year later, my father moved to North Wales and by 1983 I had moved to the North East of England.
During 2021, I have had several working visits to the area, and took the opportunity to revisit a few of my old haunts and features in the landscape - such as the pre-historic "bumps and lumps of stone". These included RAF Kemble, now Cotswold Airport - currently home to a lot of "retired" airliners ... [ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotswold_Airport ] Also, I remember RAF Lyneham from the days of the C-130 [Herki-birds] ...

I lived in, and attended school here in the 1970s, having moved from near Bath in 1972.
My mother died in the early 1980s, when I was studying at CLW (near Aberystwyth).
Maybe a year later, my father moved to North Wales and by 1983 I had moved to the North East of England.
During 2021, I have had several working visits to the area, and took the opportunity to revisit a few of my old haunts and f…  (read more)

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