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Bignickb
15-04-2011, 07:44 PM
After hearing that the Burtonwood Aerodrome was being demolished - I quickly got a team together for what could be our last chance to view the old hangars!
Yes! They have been photographed before so I decided to post pics not included in previous threads.
I have driven along the M62 so many times and wanted to view this site for a good decade now, well done the person who said they were being torn down for otherwise I would never have had this chance.
They survived the Luftwaffe, they survived the M62 and even the bad British weather for 50 years - but like most places designed to safeguard our future - the developers arrive with loaded bulldozers and big profit margins!
These breadheads have no sense of history!
But enough of my philosophical outbursts...

Me, Darkscore and Light_arted had initially checked the site at 6.30am, it was very foggy but by the time we returned with our cameras, it had mostly lifted and turned out to be a lovely morning.
We had started by the first two and then made our way to the three main prominent hangars.

Three weeks later they were gone!

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Inside 1A.
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The base of the old water tower.
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Looking down, that’s my bag and tripod – not a body!!!
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Looking along the roof of hangar 6E.
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My favourite pic of the explore – I climbed to the top and photographed this light mounting.
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Meee!
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Inside 1E! I could just fit my compact through a gap in the door and take some time exposure shots.
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The old runway leading to the M62 and vanishing under it.
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ERNIE99_UK
15-04-2011, 08:00 PM
Ive driven past Burtonwood for years and always wondered what they were like inside. shame theyre gone as they were a landmark.

Clough
15-04-2011, 09:27 PM
Nice

BB
15-04-2011, 11:12 PM
Well done capturing a interesting bit of history :thumb

the kwan
16-04-2011, 12:08 AM
nice pictures..cheers for the report.

Nicola
16-04-2011, 08:25 AM
Good that you got in an captured a record of what they were like :thumb

KingElvis
16-04-2011, 12:41 PM
That's very nice, would've liked to have seen that.

Only2Eyes
17-04-2011, 05:43 PM
Nice work mate. I miss these hangers, these were knocked down to clear room for the Omega development which so far consists of a blocked off road at a roundabout. Utter bollocks.