Malcolm GarnerDr Malcolm Garner, a headteacher in special education, lived in Hixon from 1987-2007 and was a founder member of the Hixon Local History Society. As a keen local historian, he undertook considerable research into the local wartime airbase, RAF Hixon,and the impact it had on the village at the time, and subsequently. He was fortunate in being able to meet and interview a large number of people who had been involved with the airbase in wartime as trainee aircrew, instructors, ground staff or local villagers, and record their first-hand memories.As Chairman of the Local History Society, he helped co-ordinate commemorative events in 1992 and 1995 for the 50th anniversaries of the airbase opening, and or its closure at the end of the war. Although now retired and living in Worcestershire he has maintained strong links with the village and is closely involved in current efforts to install a stained-glass window in the local church as a permanent memorial to RAF Hixon. Read More Read Less