Grant Peerless

GRANT PEERLESS took early retirement in 1999 from a career in civil engineering and then worked as a consultant until retiring finally in 2013. With his late co-author Richard Riding, they wrote Elstree Aerodrome: The Past in Pictures and Leavesden Aerodrome: From Halifaxes to Hogwarts. Grant went on to research all the airfields in the UK, publishing UK Airfields Past and Present: A Directory of Airfields from 1908 to 2018 in 2020. He flies regularly from Elstree and has so far visited over 130 airfields all over England.