The select Committee of National Expediture asked questions in 1918 about a rigid-airship constructional station under construction in Lancashire where £800,00 had been spent on the construction of a village of 100 houses, railways and sidings and a start made on the shed itself when all work stopped due to a shortage of steel in October 1917 - the steel going elsewhere for more urgent projects.
Anyone know of the location? To me it sounds like Moreton but that is in Dorset and was not a rigid airship construction station.
You can tell a builder from an archaeologist by the size of his trowel. Mine is a small one!
I assume Lancashire in this context includes cunks of Merseyside and the bits up by Barrow. Quite a large area!
I originally thought of Walney Island but that is a known site.
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
There is a 'Moreton' in Cheshire, that is, on the Wirral Peninsula. Near the coast good connections. just west of Liscard/Wallasey. May have been lumped into Lancashire at some time?
EDIT: Too windy I fear. I assume that if airships were built they would also be flown out? There is a windfarm on the coast here now!
When the airship works at Barrow was deemed to be too vulnerable (a U-boat had taken potshots at it in Jan 1915!) and the associated landing ground was too small for the bigger airships coming into service, Vickers looked for another site. They found one at Flookburgh protected by the sandbanks of Morecambe Bay. A village was built and the houses still survive. Almost £800,000 was spent on the project before it was abandoned. Part of the site became RAF Cark in WW2.
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