Relocated Hangars

A friend of mine recently photographed what appear to be a couple of blister hangars beside the railway line just south-east of Hazel Grove Station in Cheshire. It was taken hurriedly through a dirty carriage window on a dull day so the quality is pretty bad. The area is only about two miles from Woodford so there may be a connection. Looking on StreetView, only the roofs are visible from the road which is perhaps why former local resident, the much-missed Barry Abraham, never reported them. One of the buildings close to the road has the look of shadow factory architecture and across the road is a large cleared area with concrete bases. A dispersed site for Woodford perhaps?

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From the Wikipedia page of Hazel Grove, so make of it what you will...

NXP (Formerly Philips, Mullard) have a Semiconductor manufacturing plant (wafer Fab) located in Hazel Grove off Bramhall Moor Lane. The site has been there for over 25 years and currently employs in the region of 650 people. Prior to that the site was at School Street, which has an interesting history. Before 1939 the site beside the Marcliff (later Warwick) cinema at the S. end of the village had a garage and petrol station (opposite Jack Sharp's greyhound track), which was converted at the outbreak of war into an aircraft factory, occupying the entire triangle between Macclesfield Road and the two railway lines. This seemed also to have been extended behind the Norbury Church, in School St. At the end of the war prefabs were built. Then, the Macclesfield Road site was taken over for pharmaceuticals by British Schering. Eventually G.E.C. started a transistor factory at the School St. address.
[Note - this extension to the article is incomplete but what I do write is accurate to the best of my belief. Please complete it if you can, someone. P.W.]

All the best,
PB

Paul, belated thanks for the link. I'd forgotten I posted this and of course AIX is so popular that things disappear rapidly below the horizon. I never thought to look on Wiki! I will try to find out more about this site.

There is a T2 in what was the old goods yard at Great Yeldham Station in Essex. One of the guys at Ridgewell Museum believes it 'may' have come from RAF Biggin Hill.
Hope this helps.
Robert

It looks like a T2 doors and all from ground level. There is another building abutting it which confuses identification from above.

maps.google.com/maps?q=great+yeldham+uk&...bp=12,356.33,,1,3.25

Good old Google Streetview. It never ceases to amazr me what information you can get on t'internet now. I have a couple of close up views of the hangar which i will attempt to post once REF has helped me to master posting pics! lol
Rob

Seems extraordinary that it might have come all that way (from Biggin Hill) given the vast numbers of T2s that were taken down in the 50s and 60s in East Anglia, and indeed Essex alone.

From the records that I have seen Biggin Hill did not have any T type hangars.

PETERTHEEATER;121592 wrote:

From the records that I have seen Biggin Hill did not have any T type hangars.

Very strange !
SD310 (1942) doesn't have an entry for Biggin ?
SD310 (1944)states 2 Bessonneau 12 Blisters and 1 'F'.
whereas SD722 (1955) states four T2s (240 by 114) only.

What happened here?