The Bodaly Family goes to Skipton-on-Swale

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In 2008, Betty Bodaly planned a trip to the United Kingdom with her 4 daughters. She coordinated the entire trip and rented a car to take the family to Skipton-on-Swale to meet Mr. Sanderson who farms the land at the base. The images and words tell the story of that trip. Please click on the thumbnail below to see a much larger image and narrative/ names of people in the image.

Stan Bodaly & Elizabeth

(Betty) Heath

Stan & Betty Bodaly, and the

Teals, Skipton-on-Swale,

Dedication of Cairn, May, 1984

Maurice Sanderson and Betty Bodaly, May 2008.

Mr. Sanderson owns the

farmland at Skipton-on-Swale.

Helmet and piece of plane

that crashed in August 1944

Plaque in Memory of

Stanley Bodaly DFC,

Control Tower Wall,

Skipton-on-Swale

Former Mess Hall

Skipton-on-Swale Base

Now used for farming

Former Mess Hall

Skipton-on-Swale Base

Now used for farming

View from the Control Tower,

surrounded by Canola

Skipton-On-Swale

May 2008

Fire Station, six bay

ambulance station,

Skipton-On-Swale

Betty Bodaly and Donna Tell

spreading the ashes of

F/O Stanley H. Bodaly

from the Control Tower

Skipton-On-Swale

May 2008

Betty Bodaly with her daughters

L-R, Anne Guard, Susan Little,

Betty Bodaly, Donna Tell,

Gail Swainson

in the Control Tower

Skipton-On-Swale May 2008

Maurice Sanderson and

Betty Bodaly Control Tower

Skipton-on-Swale

May 2008

Stan Bodaly in the turret again

Trenton Memorial Aviation Museum

Restoration of Halifax

August 2000