Relocated Hangars

Whilst focus of this thread has been the relocation of hangars to off-airfield sites, hangars have been relocated to other airfields or to another location on the same airfield. Mention has already been made of the twin T2s - known as T2 North and T2 South respectively - at Duxford. I think it is well known that T2 South (erected on the site of the original 1951 T2) came from Tempsford. Anyone got any ideas where T2 North came from?

Could it have been the T2 from Honigton, demolished I presume at the time the HAS sites were constructed in the late 1970s/early 1980s? I believe that a half-length T2 was built at Wattisham to house the Search and Rescue Flight. Another half-length T2 was erected at Chivenor for the same purpose. This suggests a single hangar split between two sites. Could the 'donor' hangar for the Wattisham and Chivenor SAR Enclaves have come from Honington?

I also know that at Bardney a T2 hangar was moved from one side of the airfield to the other, after sale of the site, where it was to be used as a bulk store for the products from the Morrells canning factory in the town. I remember being told, and I think seeing a photograph of, the complete and fully assembled T2 portals being carried across the airfield one by one on the jib of a mobile crane. In a similar vein, I have seen a picture of a complete Nissen hut being moved in a similar manner.

Turning to hangars moved off military airfields, many of these of course ended up on the small civil airfields and airstrips. Ones that spring to mind are the hangar that was at Skegness (Ingoldmells). This comprised two Extra Over-type Blister hangaars and a Dorman Long-type Blister hangar laid end-to-end. A similar technique of laying a number of Blister hangars end-to-end was used at Boston, with both airfields and their associated hangars being opened in the period 1947/48. Lots of other civil airfields ended up with one or more Blister hangars - Old Buckenham springs immediately to mind. Wan't it a Blister hangar that was burnt out several years ago at Felthorpe?

Questions, questions, questions!

Spotted just off a roundabout on the A518 in Uttoxeter, a single Robin. There's only one place this could have realistically come from and that's Abbotts Bromley, which still has one in-situ, if a little dilapidated these days.



It now forms part of Staffordshire Highways Uttoxeter Depot. Unfortunately, trying to get a rear three-quarter or rear view is next to impossible as the road which runs alongside and to the rear is a nightmare! The open doors hide the sloping sides.

Chris

Super Robins north of Langar?

www.atlantikwall.co.uk/atlantikw ... page01.htm

There's what looks like a Blister Hangar in a farmyard immediately north of RAF Kings Cliffe, which I'm assuming didn't travel far...

Live Maps link

All the best,
PB

Another relocated hangar from Beaulieu was apparently one used by Wilmot Mansour Ltd who were manufacturers of Target gliders and drones in the immediate postwar years - and later made the Jetex motors for models(The memories that brings back!).

The company operated at Marwell Hall towards the end of WW2 then moved to Beaulieu where they occupied a hangar.

In 1947 the company moved to Totton (west of Southampton) and took the hangar with them to the new site in Nutsey Lane.

Looking at GE it seems to have gone now but was apparently still there in 2001 ...a very small picture on this page (near bottom on right).

jetex.org/history/path_to_jetex.html

As this thread seems to be pretty healthy, any volunteers for starting an audit for them? Seems there's enough information starting to come forward. If anyone does, have a look at the current audits and format. Any takers chaps?

Chris

Cheers for the offer Pete - you know the general format of them. Look forward to seeing it.

Chris

You have another 'Blister' north of the given position on the Live Map Link... or am I wrong ?

Well spotted.
I hadn't looked that far north in detail.

GE gives them spans of 88'x45' for the southern one, and 89'x96' for the northern one.

PB