Show Notes and links: Haunted Henlow Camp

Video of Balloon Jumping Including Brainy Dobbs and Nellie Odell

Here’s a link to the article about this in the Smithsonian Magazine:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/sport-balloon-jumping-180958805

And here is the Pathe News reel

Here’s a BBC Halloween article which includes the Brainy Dobbs story as an unusual haunting: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37717362

RAF Henlow History

Here’s a link to the Signals Museum history of the camp: https://signalsmuseum.uk/HenlowHistory.html

Here’s an interesting article about the Nissen huts being used as hospital wards at Meldreth in Cambridgeshire: https://www.meldrethhistory.org.uk/topics/wartime_in_meldreth/world_war_two/ambulance-trains-and-the-nissen-huts

And there’s an interesting video on this facebook page about old Nissen Huts being used as a hospital after the war near Salisbury: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=168796861418145

And finally

Over the last 40 years many local to RAF Henlow will have passed a Hawker Hunter aeroplane on “Guard Duty” outside the camp. It’s even a pokestop on the game Pokemon Go.

Well it was my Dad, corporal Nigel Salmon who originally craned the plane into place outside the camp’s entrance. A pretty tricky job it was too, what with the trees, near by roads and the tight space it had to fit into!

Here’s some info about the plane https://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/hunter/survivor.php?id=18

Search images of RAF Henlow and the Hawker Hunter always pops up.