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Airship heritage is teed off thanks to golf course
A TRIBUTE has been made to the designer of the famous bouncing bomb, Barnes Wallis.
Thanks to the efforts of the Barnes Wallis Memorial Trust and the Howden Civic Society there are now two special interpretation boards at Boothferry Golf Course explaining the history of the airship station which once dominated the site.
Thanks to course owner, Chris Mowforth, and a bequest from the late Tom Asquith, founder members of the Howden Civic Society and the Barnes Wallis Memorial Trust, and his wife Betty, the organisations have been able to install the two boards, which illustrate the site history from 1915 to 1929.
The unveiling ceremony was led by Mary Stopes-Roe, Barnes Wallis' daughter, on Tuesday and was attended by representatives of the two societies and other local groups.
The Howden Civic Society board tells the history of perhaps the biggest Royal Naval Airship Station in Britain in World War 1. It covered over one thousand acres of farmland, and in its hey-day provided accommodation for a thousand service personnel.
The Barnes Wallis Memorial Trust board covers the years from 1926 to 1929 when Barnes Wallis, later famous for designing the bouncing bomb used by the Dam Busters, and his family, lived on the station.
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