Co Durham will do nicely. RAF Seaton Snooks was a radar station between Hartlepool and Billingham, its antennae re-activated during the column's recent Eskimo Nell saga. He also recalls taking off from Greatham as a youngster in a three-seat Oster, fare around 1 a head. The pilot deliberately cut out over the sea, and I can still remember everyone going white. He probably realised he'd gone a bit too far, because when we landed he took us all home in his car.
Aviation seems to have changed a bit since then.
Anne Gibbon from Darlington joins the great aspirations debate with memories of a great aunt's gardener - one Warren by name. He lived in north Northumberland in the 1950s. Despite suffering from the former, we were only too aware of the latter on Monday morning. A week's holiday may at least thaw the cold.