Relocated Hangars

As discussed with REF on site (or across site), the Baltic Wharf T2s almost certainly came from Boxted and Birch. They do not appear on 1961 large scale OS but do show up latermaps in the 1960s. On Thursday, 9 Jauary 1960 81 buildings at Boxted and Birch were auctioned off by Balls & Balls, auctioneers. Included in the auction were four T2s, a Blister hangar, three Seco buildings, four Romney huts, 46 Nissen type huts (some of considerable length), 21 brick buildings, electrical equipment, piping, building material, also nearly ten miles of underground cabling. I have the original auctioneers catalogue for the sale plus another auction catalogue for an auction of of 78 buildings at Great Saling (Andrews Field) and Ridgewell for Thursday, 24 July 1958. At this latter sale there were on offer... 39 Nissen huts, one blister hangar, 16 large Seco buildings, 22 brick buildings, compounds and other effects.

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Hangar 5 at North Weald, situated next to the only remaining pre-war hangar and currently occupied by Kings Transport, came from the Gloster factory at Brockworth and was erected by Aces High. The stored, unbuilt T2 which was in the grass area next to Hangar 4 (Kennet) was scrapped at the end of last year. It was badly corroded.

during my journey i was travelling on the a49 from whitchurch towards shrewsbury and just before you get to a village called hadnall there is a robin type hanger on your left its covered in ivy.it sits on its own in a field near the road which made me think it might be a relocated hangar.any ideas

I have taken a virtual tour (Street View) but can't locate it. Can you be specific with the location?

I used to drive the A49 frequently in the 60's and it hasn't changed a lot.

EDIT: OK, found it. It's actually at Preston Brockhurst just south of the former Bridelway Gate RLG and just NW of RAF Shawbury:

maps.google.com/maps?q=preston+brockhurs...bp=12,178.06,,1,2.53

midnightbounty;99343 wrote:

... it might be a relocated hangar.any ideas

No - it's actually the most northerly of 27MU's dispersed hangars, (Shown on map in Aldon Ferguson's History of RAF Shawbury).

One of the most southerly is also extant HERE .

27 MU dispersed Robins Hangar at Preston Brochurst in April 2010

hi, ive found another robin hanger i think.its just by gailey island near penkridge staffordshire where the a5 crosses the a449 in a highway maintanence yard.u come off the m6 at j12 then head west away from cannock on the a5,just b4 u get to the next roundabout for the a449,look to the left u will see a police station then next to that is the yard and hanger sitting to the rear.u can see it on google maps and street view just type in gailey gridge rd then scroll away from m6.could this b from the raf station at penkridge?didnt know how to get proper coordinates.

midnightbounty;100196 wrote:

hi, ive found another robin hanger i think.its just by gailey island near penkridge staffordshire where the a5 crosses the a449 in a highway maintanence yard.u come off the m6 at j12 then head west away from cannock on the a5,just b4 u get to the next roundabout for the a449,look to the left u will see a police station then next to that is the yard and hanger sitting to the rear.u can see it on google maps and street view just type in gailey gridge rd then scroll away from m6.could this b from the raf station at penkridge?didnt know how to get proper coordinates.

gailey bridge rd

'Where's the Path' is a convenient tool for showing the location of objects: wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm

Find the object and centre it in the window (zoom in as required) then look in the top right-hand corner for the 'chain link'. Click on this and a window with the location link appears. Copy the link and Paste into your reply.

Or you could use 'FlashEarth'

wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm?lat=5...6733&gz=19&oz=7>=1

The hangar looks to be not wide enough for a Super Robin. Perhaps others can confirm its identity. The Robin Type B as shown in a post above was smaller but had canted sides.

PETERTHEEATER;100208 wrote:

The hangar looks to be not wide enough for a Super Robin. Perhaps others can confirm its identity. The Robin Type B as shown in a post above was smaller but had canted sides.

That's what I thought, but the door runners look right. Streetview