Brim Ness
Note: This map gives only a rough position within the UK. If anybody can kindly offer advice on the site used, this will be much appreciated.
BRIM NESS: Early ‘occassional airport’ or Landing Ground (today listed as BRIMS NESS)
Operated by: Scottish Airways
Location: Very roughly 5nm WNW of Thurso
NOTES: Iain Hutchinson in his book Air Ambulance gives some extracts from Edmund Freeson’s log book from 1937 to 1938. Edmund Freeson formed Highland Airways at Inverness in 1933.
One record is:
Date Aircraft Winds Time
5 May 1943 Rapide G-AEWL W 2.55
Remarks
Inverness – Brim Ness – Orkney (Grimsetter) – N Ronaldsway – Orkney – Inverness. Ambulance Charter
This was the first mention of BRIM NESS I’d discovered. Looking at the notes for THURSO it does seem, I trust you will agree, that BRIM or BRIMS NESS was a separate Landing Ground.
What needs to be remembered was that in those days there was no money and resources to lay out a prepared strip, let alone an airfield at remote locations. And indeed many of the so called 'regional airports' regularly used in the UK were very primitive indeed. See HALDON in DEVON, serving Torquay and Paignton for a fairly typical example.
Quite often, especially in the outer regions of Scotland, they would fly around the region looking for suitable sites to land on. This was very much the case for potential air ambulance missions.
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