title Eye Airfield with Mick the Brick, Eye, Suffolk - 5th August 2020 intro Nosher and Mick head up to the Yaxley Cherry Tree for a beer, but rather than go the usual way through Eye and the Highfield estate, we meet up at the gate off Progress Way and cycle over the remains of the old airfield - Mick's old stomping ground for decades. Built in 1943/44 and used as a minor USAAF air base during WWII, there's still a surprising amount of surviving runway and taxiways left, at least in the parts not built over for Humphrey's massive floodlit warehouses or chicken factories. imgp1802 Mick's already waiting at the gate imgp1804 A bit of old taxiway or aircraft parking imgp1806 Mick cycles around imgp1809 There's a big makeshift wood store on the airfield imgp1811 More concrete imgp1812 Part of a long taxi route imgp1814 A big pile of tree stumps imgp1817 One of the few original drain covers still around imgp1820 Footprints in the concrete from when it was built imgp1822 Looking over to the old fuse store imgp1823 Mick points something out imgp1825 The wind turbines are massive and noisy up close imgp1828 T2 - the wind turbine terminator imgp1829 Mick cycles off imgp1830 A pile of old oil drums imgp1834 Mick roams around imgp1839 Mick cycles along the main runway imgp1845 A flock of ducks waddles through the stubble imgp1846 Looking south towards Mendlesham imgp1847 Mick heads out onto Castleton Way imgp1849 A new road is built up to the A140 imgp1852 A load of drainage, and the new road route imgp1853 A pile of pipes imgp1855 Stefan at the bar in the Yaxley Cherry Tree imgp1860 Stefan's dog looks around imgp1861 Stefan's dog says hello to Mick imgp1864 Stefan - one-time Swan regular, with dog imgp1867 A stripey ginger pub cat imgp1868 Mick gets his coat imgp1881 Turbines in the dark