Relocated Hangars

REF wrote:

PETERTHEEATER wrote:

There is this hangar adjacent to the former Portsmouth airport. Was it one belonging to the airfield or is it a transplant?

www.flashearth.com/?lat=50.82963 ... =0&src="msa"

Looks like a 'C' Type which was not exactly portable so probably it is in its original location.

Any ideas?

Peter

Can the location / flashearth link be re-posted please? Thanks

Yes. Here it is:

www.flashearth.com/?lat=50.82962 ... =0&src="msa "

Did anyone know the Queen's Hall in Watton town is part of a hangar from the airfield? All the iron work in the roof is all the original hangar with bits added on when moved to it's new site sometime in the 1950's.

Ahh Queens Hall, saw the Dagenham Girl Pipers there, hadnt realised where it had come from though

From historyofwatton.org.uk :

Queens Hall
In October 1952 Watton Parish Council called a meeting to consider what would form a suitable commemoration of the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. A large majority favoured the erection of a Public Hall as there was a long standing need for such an amenity in Watton. A commit*tee was appointed and quickly embarked on their formidable task of providing a Public Hall and the subsidiary task of organising Coronation Festivities in the town.

Within a year a suitable site had been purchased and the idea of using an existing steel hangar frame as the mainstay of the building was adopted and negotiations for such a frame commenced, A hangar was purchased on December 29th 1953 and in three weeks was dismantled and brought to Watton for cleaning and painting. Plans for the Hall having been approved by all the authorities concerned, the boundary wall, fronting Norwich Road, was breached and an entrance cut to the site on April 5th 1954.

Work on felling 18 trees, bulldozing out roots and excavating for building foundations preceded rapidly and by August 1954 the hangar frame was erected. Having complied with the necessary con*ditions for obtaining a Ministry of Education grant, notification was received from the Ministry during September that a grant of £1,762 would be paid by instalments, providing that the work was done by voluntary labour.

PB

kebecker wrote:

Ahh Queens Hall, saw the Dagenham Girl Pipers there, hadnt realised where it had come from though

I am ashamed to say I was recently listening to a song by the Luton Girls Choir and recognised them but I don't feel so sad now you have owned up to actually paying to see the Dagenham Girls Pipers. Those were the days.

kebecker wrote:

I didnt pay, I was smuggled in under one of their kilts!

Is it true about what they wore under the kilts?

Anyone know hangar type involved? I'm guessing not a C!!

The link above gives the following dimensions:

"...105 feet in length by 36 feet in width...."

TTFN,
PB