Construction of the base started in late 1938 and by early 1939, it was ready to be occupied with official opening coming on 28 June 1939.

[1] In August 1943, the Royal Air Force School of Fire Fighting and Rescue inaugurated training at RAF Sutton on Hull.

In 1955, the trade came under the umbrella of the RAF Regiment (Trade Group 22) and as a result, four years later the school was moved to Royal Air Force Catterick where the RAF Regiment training and HQ were located.

Due to the harmful nature of the missing items (phosphorus grenades, tear gas generators and chloropicrin),[15] the local police actually took to the streets with loudhailers warning of the inherent danger of the missing items and appealing for their return.

[16] After the School of Fire Fighting was relocated, the site was finally closed and most of the estate was sold off to Hull Corporation in 1961,[12] however, some of the housing was kept as military families quarters for those working at RAF Holmpton.

RAF Sutton on Hull just displayed whichever command or group that it resided under at that time.

[19] The main gates to the base were re-hung at Hull East Park and renovated in 1999 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the site being opened.