The Strike at Biggin Hill Written by Pam Preedy. The RAF opened their station at Biggin Hill in 917. It remained open after the war. In 1919 there were 500 men of the Wireless Experimental station stationed at South Camp. The living conditions at that time were appalling; most sleeping in tents in a sea of mud. The dining hall, too, was a leaky canvas hangar equally muddy and the food, prepared in an open, rusty shed, was almost inedible. In spite of many complaints to the authorities, nothing changed. …