RAF Watton 2003 - Gates Now Closed. By Mr Frank Hurrell

This video was shot and edited by Mr Frank Hurrell of Dereham Road, Watton in 2003. Frank wanted to record the last moments of the buildings on the technical site at RAF Watton before its sale and subsequent demolition and development into Blenheim Grange, Carbrooke as it is today.
I am very grateful to Frank for giving me a copy of his video at the tie and his permission to use in the future.

The Gates Now Closed

The gates now closed on an era long
and minds drift on to friends now gone,
of memories, lived in other times
of olden songs and distant rhymes.

The thoughts of runways long and clean
now holed, broken, and patched with green
of hangars tall and kept with pride
no longer used, so bare inside.

The planes whose engines used to roar
that once took off, return no more
where oft’ they taxied, to fly away
now looked upon another day

Of men and women that would strive
in days gone by, to keep alive
the heart that beat for all to see,
gone forever, but not the memory.

To look across that field so bare,
to wish, to think, to say a prayer
for to forget them would be so wrong
for the heart may have stopped, but the soul lives on.

Copyright © Mike Hillier 1990 to 2000 Used with Mike's permission.