Just before the Coronation, Dick Arscott and his family moved into 4 rooms in the Officers Married Quarters, what used to be the WAAF site, as was the trend at the time many people planted trees for the Coronation.
So, Mrs Arscott and Dick went off to the disused part of the airfield to see if they could locate a sapling and after a while she found the one she wanted.
It was growing up through an old hardstanding and even though her husband brought to her attention many others that would be easier for him to lift out, she said,
"If it would grow through tarmac it would grow anywhere".
So, the little silver birch sappling came out and was planted in their new garden.
