Neil Hitchens wrote:
I was just wondering if there is a potted history of this anywhere. I saw a
picture of it in a fairly recent book - but was wondering what happened to
this, when did it operate form and until, that sort of thing.

From http://www.bamuseum.com/museumhistory50-60.html

It opened 19 May 1953 as Kensington Air Station closed

Thats all I really found from a quick search, and I'm personally not
too interested, but I'm sitting here so I thought I'd look it up.