Help - in identifying this airfield

29 Dec 2016 18:13 - 30 Dec 2016 08:58 #1 by Linton Lad
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Can anyone help identify the airfield

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29 Dec 2016 20:42 #2 by REF
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Looks like factory hangars on the right, J or K Sheds on the left and storage shed. Is it a depot of some description? The railway should give it away but I can't place it.

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29 Dec 2016 21:23 #3 by Linton Lad
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People was saying its yeadon from a fb group its on. So thought id come ask in the right place.
Hard to make out what aircraft are in the bottom field too

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29 Dec 2016 21:34 #4 by Linton Lad
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Bit of a puzzle really.
Other guesses were finningly and fenton. Which i know myself aint right.
Sure a answer will surface :)

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29 Dec 2016 21:36 #5 by REF
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It is Hawarden, Flintshire
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29 Dec 2016 21:39 #6 by Linton Lad
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Cool. Saw your post on the group too.
Ta bud

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29 Dec 2016 21:40 #7 by REF
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Pleasure :-)

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30 Dec 2016 08:03 #8 by PETERTHEEATER
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Looking southeast; the Vickers Armstrong factory sheds are at centre right.

The 1945 RSP shows taxiways leading to multiple frying pan dispersals in the area where the aircraft visible in the bottom left are positioned suggesting an early war date for the photograph.

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30 Dec 2016 11:06 #9 by Dave Smith
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The aircraft at the bottom are new Wellingtons dispersed from the Vickers factory. The runways were built during 1941 and in the photo work seems to be still in progress on them. The original short runway for Vickers can be seen on the extreme right heading between the factory and the flight shed. Until the 1980s/90s it was still known as the Vickers Track but has now changed to a boring ICAO-standard Taxiway Alpha which becomes Bravo after it crosses the main runway.
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30 Dec 2016 13:51 #10 by David Thompson
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There is a most excellent site plan in the book 'Hawarden - A Welsh Airfield 1939 - 1979' by a certain David J Smith ! The dispersal in the foreground was known as The Beeches and then the sites numbered clockwise from there from 1 to 5 with as PTH says , the Vickers Armstrong factory at top right between Sites 3 and 4 .

The book is long out of print but well worth getting a copy if you can , well illustrated too .

Youth is wasted on the young !
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