I WAS born and raised in Latchford until I left to marry a policeman and lived in Wirral.

I worked at Burtonwood Air Base in the communications centre on the switchboard for approximately two years and recently a friend and I went to see the museum attached to Gulliver’s.

It brought back many happy memories of my time on the base and the exhibition is fantastic, with even a scaled down version of the conning tower (why that was ever removed heaven knows).

What a landmark it would be.

Ray Thorpe and the volunteers who help run it have done a wonderful job with no help from Warrington Borough Council.

Gulliver’s kindly gave them the space to build it and public donations and the many Americans who visit also help.

Does the council not realise what a wonderful piece of history this is? Have any council members bothered to visit?

Burtonwood Air Base was the biggest in Europe and brought a lot of prosperity to Warrington and the surrounding areas and helped make it the great town it is today.

Come on WBC, help this marvellous museum steeped in history.

Are you not proud of the part it played in the past?

You should all be ashamed.

BETTY BARRETT
Little Neston, Cheshire

 

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