Where is this?

The incredible contraption is the Pemberton-Billing PB-31E Zeppelin Hunter..... but where was the photo taken? Can anyone identify the location?

No idea where that is, but it is nice to see the PB-31 in its low-drag configuration.

Since it was intended as an anti-Zeppelin machine I should think that the NE of England is most likely, somewhere such as Hull area or further north to Newcastle to meet incoming enemy raids. Eastburn (Driffield)?

Since its top speed was 60mph and (presumably) built in the sarf,I would assume somewhere in the south !
You would have had to find a very patient pilot to fly it oop north

Well, if it was in RAF service and used for anti Zep it would have needed to be close to the coast to intercept the Hun before they could drop bombs overland. So, a coastal field. I'm not a WW1 'buff' but I think that the usual ingress of the Zeps was across the North Sea.

Not easy at all unless that hangar is unique!

In T.E. Lawrence's story of his anonymous life in the RAF he uses the slang of the day to describe the dish of sausages and mashed potato as 'Zepps in a cloud'

EDIT:

I can't find anything to confirm that it was used by the RFC so perhaps the photo shows a factory location.

Or do I vaguelly recall that the Nighthawk was built by another firm (ie not supermarine)
The weather in the photo looks 'Northern' LOL

Here is a link to some info about Clifford prodger...he was the test pilot who had the 'pleasure' of the first flight in the damn thing.

www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=cliffo...nkO9r4bfCtdT15hkgFYw

Was never in service Peter,it was painfully slow and overheated in the climb !!

Right. Then that nice looking hangar was probably its home at a factory.

Clifford Prodger had links with Armstrong Whitworth and Shorts (but he was an Air Ministry test pilot too ??)
Armstrong Whitworth seems vaguely familiar with this a/c (if you can call it that LOL) but its a long time since I was that sort of anorak

I would have thought that a book about supermarine a/c might have details...I dont have the time to do any research today

AFAIK the aircraft was built at Woolston in the PB factory there(no airfield), but presumably, in keeping with other PB land aircraft ,erected and flown elsewhere, possibly from Browns ( the original Hamble aerodrome and the nearest aerodrome at that time).

or.....I was wondering if it might have gone to Farnborough for initial trials at the Royal Aircraft Factory.