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Waterloo Lane, LINCOLN, LN6 5SJ

Main road into Skellingthorpe village and warning signs for the national cycle route No.64.

Into Skellingthorpe.

Fine cast-iron gates at the entrance to the hall. The Greek key motif features heavily.

Skellingthorpe was a bomber airfield within 5 Group, which opened in late 1941. It eventually had the Class "A" intersecting three runways, the main being 1650 yards with two subsidiaries at 1400 yards. There were three hangars, two T2s and a B1. On 26th November 1941, 50 Squadron arrived with their Hampdens from Swinderby, whilst the runways there were re-laid. It has been completely obliterated by housing and nothing remains; but there are 2 memorials. https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/Royal-Air-Force-Stations-in-Lincolnshire

My brief sweet life is over My eyes no longer see No Christmas trees, no summer walks No pretty girls for me I've got the chop - I've had it My nightly Ops are done Yet in another hundred years I'll still be twenty one. R.W. Gilbert. Ralph Wilson Gilbert died in Mar 2000, aged 84 and was not the subject of his poem above although he did serve in Bomber Command in WW2.

RBS waymark on route 64 at Skellingthorpe indicating 19 miles to Newark and 3½ miles to Lincoln

The Community Centre was opened in 1973 on the site of Skellingthorpe railway station that was opened in March 1897 by the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway on its (only) main line from Chesterfield to Lincoln. Absorbed by the Great Central in 1907 the station was closed by British Railways on 19th September 1955 although it carried freight until the line closed completely in February 1980 following a derailment, with the track being lifted in 1981. By 1964 the only buildings that remained were the goods shed, signal box and weigh-bridge office. The weigh-bridge office, used as a lamp room after 1964, appears to be the only remains of the station buildings and is now the Heritage Room.