Secrets of a Sydney past

There's RAAF Richmond, roughly adjacent to and north of the old Clarendon airfield

Nearby neighbour RAN base Schofields, a bit too close to Richmond to survive

Of course there's Sydney(Kingsford-Smith)

And of course Bankstown, hemmed in by development

and Top Gear Australia has made the most of Camden's distance from Sydney

and Hoxton Park has been axed

and long-lost Hargrave Park - too close to Bankstown - is just a memory, and a collection of interesting street names

Long lost? How about the Jamison Park airfield at Penrith

And many more ex-WWII airstrips dotted around the city's extremities, most lost, a few active like Oaks Airfield or not, like at St Marys.

Labels: airports, airstrips, sydney airport

posted by gtveloce  # 8:04 AM