I reviewed this author’s Hornchurch – Second To None in 35/4, and this book follows the same format – brief script about each period, and then lots of pictures. It is almost more about the personnel who served there, than it is about the place.

As work only began on the construction of the airfield in October 1917, there is not as much for us here as there is in Hornchurch, but against that, it lasted a lot longer. So many firsts happened there, including the arrival of US airmen in 1918, the forerunners of an East Anglian deluge in World War II. Some of the early pictures have not reproduced well, but some of the later ones are magnificent. I can’t just say that this is good local history (which it is), because Duxford is more important than that.