Comments on: RAF Upwood – Cambridgeshire

By: mike tallis

mike tallis — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:08:49 +0000

trying to contact anyone who was at upwood from 1940 and knew a Sgt Ivan John Green from 214 Sqn

By: Kevin Parkinson

Kevin Parkinson — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:51:03 +0000

My father was stationed at Upwood from about 1956 to November 1959.
We lived on the road behind the big house on the main road called Tall Trees I think.
At the time a good friend of mine lived there called Donald Brady who was the son of the camp electrician I think. We made a quick visit to Ramsey and Upwood during a visit to Peterborough a fe weeks ago.I was disappointed with the state of the camp.Whilst in Ramsey we met a lady who also lived at Tall Trees and also new my mate.
She was at Ramsey Junior School the same time as me 1956-1959. Do you remember sdome of the teachers? Mr Smith – head,Miss Bufton and Mrs Kitching.

By: Peter Snook

Peter Snook — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:43:57 +0000

Hi Ray
There certainly was a camp cinema on the site. The rushes
from the film “Appointment in London” were shown in there
in 1952 when filming finished. I was an Instrument Mechanic
on 148sqdn there from Feb1952 to mid 1954 when I was posted
to Luqa-Malta.
Any help?
Pete Snook.

By: Peter Richards

Peter Richards — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 23:08:14 +0000

Sad to see these images. My grandfather was based there in 1974, so was my wife’s uncle in the mid 1960′s.

By: Ray Kilby

Ray Kilby — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 19:42:07 +0000

Lived in Ramsey most of my life,so know Upwood very well,was there a picture house on the base? i think there was,as my dad was a projectionist there during the war,and he got the nick name FLICK for obvious reasons,he also worked at the grand in ramsey as well.He met and married a girl called Margaret Holmes,a Liverpudlian,who was in the WRAF, stationed at Upwood,and worked in the ops room.Any one remember them?.

By: Stewart Wilson

Stewart Wilson — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:42:15 +0000

Hello I used to drive by that old camp often.
I noticed that nice looking medical building, I’m ex R A O C 12 years and I know an old ARMY/R A F Camp when I see one,
it’s the U S A Fire Hydrants on the old Estate that I’m wanting to know about, did they have there own fire trucks on the base,and would the hydrants work with the UK Fire equipment is the medical center still used by the forces it looks quite impressive there is a notice out side. the place looks run down but that medical building looks top notch

Stewart<

By: Michael Kiernan

Michael Kiernan — Tue, 31 May 2011 15:33:47 +0000

Hi,
I was at RAF Upwood in Jan. 1962 attending a P.I.s course. At the time I was serving in the Royal Engineers as a Cpl. and passed the course enabling me to fill a posting to Gordon Barracks, Gillingham, Kent. A very interesting course.

By: Karen Talamantez

Karen Talamantez — Tue, 31 May 2011 01:27:12 +0000

My husband was also an instructor at the school about the same time (1985-1992) and felt the same way about the Chief. I worked at RAF Alconbury. We lived at RAF Upwood for a time before we left in 1992. We lived in the old housing. It was a bustling place then.

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:27:03 +0000

Hi, i was just wondering if anyone knows how i could contact the current owners of RAF Upwood about permissions to use it for a filming project. It is for a media course at Peterborough Regional College, Media and Journalism Centre. Please respond asap as we feel that this would be a perfect and suitable place for one of our locations. Only a small section of the building is required and most filming will be outside, however we would like filming to commence sometime during the evening hours for some natural sunset lighting. Please and thank you for any information you may have. To contact me, you can email on: xmwahx_lbromley@hotmail.com

By: terri (york) stoll

terri (york) stoll — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:26:35 +0000

Am interested to hear from fellow classmates from the class I attended in 1988. My son recently stationed at RAF Molesworth, has let me know how it looks now at this old place. I had been stationed at Sicily AB, Italy when selected to go the class. Was a memorable time to say the least.