2 tours available: 10am – 11.45am   or  11.45am – 1.15pm Cost £10 + £5 donation for SANHS Toneworks was at the centre of Wellington’s cloth industry, and the building housed the textile dying and “wet finishing” – washing and drying – processes. Meet at Toneworks, Tonedale, Wellington, TA21 0AJ Please note that these tours are […]

An opportunity to visit a local airfield with D Day connections in the anniversary year Upottery airfield, known locally as Smeatharpe, opened in February 1944 as a bomber airfield for the USAAF with three runways, two T2 hangars and a bomb dump. The first USAAF aircraft arrived 26 April 1944 and were Douglas C-47 transports. […]