It’s good that some historical remnant - the control tower -remains. In NE Australia, there were a huge number of airfields that many hundreds of B-25s and other aircraft flew out from on missions to distant Pacific islands and back again. There is almost nothing remaining of that history as landing strips became roads or crops were grown over them.
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8056961,-1.5015827,1429m/dat...
Worse perhaps is we're graudally losing that sense of history, of courage and sacrifice. I wouldn't want to be jingoistic about it, but I think people are unaware of what the wartime generations went through.
While it pains me as a ww2 buff to say this, I do think that as a society we have a bit of an unhealthy obsession with WW2.
And, it's not like it ever made sense to turn East Anglia into some kind of WW2 air war museum. After the war, people wanted their farmlands back, and wanted to continue their lives, and they had every right to do that.
Similarly, this map [1] of St Ives has streets that include Comet, Wellington, Blenheim, Canberra, Lancaster and others
[0] https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.7378007,-1.7376243,16.5z?h...
[1] https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Comet+Way,+Saint+Ives+PE...