Skipton-On-Swale Station Control Tower

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Image provided courtesy of Howard Cowperthwaite


The lovely image at left was photographed by Howard Cowperthwaite in January, 2001.

He was a tail-gunner flying in Lancasters for 433 Squadron at Skipton-on-Swale during the war.

Click here to see "It's Over" a photo of young Howard waiting at Devon in July, 1945 for his ship to Canada.

Click here to see images of the same control tower in 2008, as the Bodaly family revisited the site where Stan Bodaly, husband and father flew as a gunner in Halifax MK planes in 1944.