Visited with smurfinator and her fella.
I didn't have very high expectations of this place - other reports I'd seen had a small number of interesting things in there but not a huge amount. On arrival it looked a little smaller than I was expecting - not tiny, but not huge either and nowhere near the size of Nocton in Lincolnshire.
Here is a page which gives an account of life at croft in the 50's http://www.rafburtonwood.org/croft.html
Seems croft was linked with the much larger RAF Burtonwood the other side of Warrington - I think nothing remains of burtonwood.
In later years it seems croft was used by a farmer to house animals - that is clear to see with lots of straw in some of the rooms.
In the end I have to say I did enjoy this explore - some cracking colours in the brickwork and some of the doors and some interesting, and some rather bizarre, little nick nacks and stuff.
So on with the pics:
who's there ?
projection room:
stage:
I could go on - I could happily have posted 40-50 pics or more - this really is a very photogenic place - it's a very easy and relaxed explore (if a little busier than Oxford Circus).
If you do pay a visit watch out for the open manholes all over the grounds and some are very overgrown - so easy to come a cropper if you're not paying 100% attention.
So in closing have to say this place really surprised and me and comfortably exceeded my expectations.
thanks for the invite Smurf and was good to see you again - it'd been waaaay too long.
thanks for looking. The whole set is in my flickr set here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8446248...7623411786333/ - all 178 images