Thanks, Dave and nice to hear from somebody on the other side of the world who knows my locality.

To add to your memories of 66 Sq. at Acklington I well remember a family picnic at Druridge Bay which lay a mile or two off the end of Acklington's runway. It would be around 1954 - I was 6 at the time - and this unusual and very powerful roar ( we were used to the Goblins and Derwents of Vampires and Meteors) was accompanied by what I can only describe as a fleeting arrow as it climbed and disappeared in the clouds. Dad shouted 'It's one of those new Hawker Hunters ------!'. Of course the image and occasion was to be indelibly imprinted on a young boy's memory and has been a driving force throughout the long hard nights of the project some 50 or so years later!
Regards,
Keith