Alconbury

Geoffrey and Una Alconbury are my parents 'best friends and, as Uncle Geoffrey never tires of reminding me, have known me since I was running round the lawn with no clothes on.

Excerpt: Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding 1998

For my initial research for these improbable adventures, I drove on Saturday afternoon down the old Great North Road that still runs parallel to the A1 (M) from Alconbury to Stilton, where huge tin motorway signs tower over the hedges.

Old Street No 1 Peter Ashley 2008

I returned from Vietnam in November 1969, and was transferred to RAF Alconbury in England, where I crewed RF-4Cs, now as part of the NATO forces confronting the Soviet Union.

Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

The new American “Pathfinder” force—the 482nd Bomb Group—had been activated that August at Alconbury, in Huntingdonshire, and had flown its first mission the following month, leading elements of the Eighth to the German port city of Emden.

Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

I returned from Vietnam in November 1969, and was transferred to RAF Alconbury in England, where I crewed RF-4Cs, now as part of the NATO forces confronting the Soviet Union.

Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

The new American “Pathfinder” force—the 482nd Bomb Group—had been activated that August at Alconbury, in Huntingdonshire, and had flown its first mission the following month, leading elements of the Eighth to the German port city of Emden.

Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

These tradition-bound local folk would soon have the young American fliers ignoring military terminology and calling their bomber stations, not by their Air Force numbers, but by the names of the ancient hamlets the new airfields were built near: Seething and Snetterton Heath, Wendling and Wattisham, Alconbury and Attlebridge, Thorpe Abbotts and Thurleigh.

Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

I returned from Vietnam in November 1969, and was transferred to RAF Alconbury in England, where I crewed RF-4Cs, now as part of the NATO forces confronting the Soviet Union.

Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

I returned from Vietnam in November 1969, and was transferred to RAF Alconbury in England, where I crewed RF-4Cs, now as part of the NATO forces confronting the Soviet Union.

Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

These tradition-bound local folk would soon have the young American fliers ignoring military terminology and calling their bomber stations, not by their Air Force numbers, but by the names of the ancient hamlets the new airfields were built near: Seething and Snetterton Heath, Wendling and Wattisham, Alconbury and Attlebridge, Thorpe Abbotts and Thurleigh.

Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006