WHAT AERODROME QUIZ - Vol 1

I'm struggling with this one. Donna Nook?

Peter H

What are you classing as North East England? River Humber to Berwick? and does it still look more or less like in the pic on Google earth? I think I've look at every airfield from the Pennines to the North sea coast and can't see one that look like it, LOL

Is it Greatham/ West Hartlepool?

Always wondered what Greatham looked like, was reading the book Thornaby Aerodrome and war time memories the other day as well, which includes Greatham although there's only one picture in it of the entrance with Bellmans in the background. Looking on Google there are a couple of small buildings near Stockton road where the entrance was that seem to be still there and can just be spotted in your picture. In the centre of the link below, squarish building with the red door and the two small building opposite?

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As usual don't have anything to post, so the floor is open.

Stevo

As far as i can remember from the book and don't quote me, a number of Bellmans where erected at Greatham as demonstration examples (as they where built by Teesside Bridge Engineering Co) and where moved (possibly) to Thornaby during the war, if you look at this small pic of the runways at Thornaby being built a lot of Bellmans can be seen to the right of the rwy. I can count 8. picture.stockton.gov.uk/genPreviewThumbT...x?Image=819t7780.jpg So it could be quite true and the number of Bellmans that are there isn't on any of the plans I have of Thornaby

Thanks for the link

Stevo

I have a site plan (sort of! - more a landing chart) of Greatham, dated 194x (the last figure is obliterated). The peri-track is very different from Peter's aerial photo - its a smooth curve from the foreground to the admin site, rather than two straights and a 100 degree angle. The land behind the admin site (Greatham Cottages) is however identical on the photo and site plan. The plan shows a number of badly drawn buildings on the admin site - impossible to tell if one is a hangar. FWIW the Dwg number of the plan is A.M. State RM. SD68(b).

Somewhere I have some notes on TNA - AVIA2/2709: Discussions on the post war planning for civil aviation, of Greatham aerodrome, West Hartlepool. I'll see if they reveal anything.

Graham