This news was released last Wednesday, after our local weekly had been ‘put to bed’. So, it won’t appear there until Thursday, and I’m feeling a little smug at having posted it here before it appeared in the paper.

The Stonehenge Programme Board, headed by Culture Minister Barbara Follett and Transport Minister Andrew Adonis, recommended that the new Visitor Centre should be built at Airman’s Corner.

Just ‘recommended’, mind you. They still have to get planning permission and start another consultation phase, to run the idea past English Heritage, the National Trust, the Highways Agency, the local Council and Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and all.

The recommendations also include closing the A344 road that runs past Stonehenge, and setting in place an all-weather transit system between the Centre and the Stones. Full details are on the 13^th May entry at

　http://www.salisburyguidedtours.com/news.htm

But, the Airman’s Corner? I’ve always held that it should be Airmen’s Corner; there were two people on the aircraft that crashed here in 1912, Captain E.B. Loraine and Staff Sergeant R.H.V. Wilson. A stone cross near the crossroads marks the site of the crash, which is notable because it was the first fatality of the newly-formed Royal Flying Corps (forerunner of the Royal Air Force) and probably the first in British military aviation.

And, another one goes live! See 

http://www.travelthruhistory.com/html/historic32.html