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    Default USAF Burtonwood, Warrington, 10-08

    After hearing that the Burtonwood Aerodrome was being demolished - I quickly got a team together for what could be our last chance to view the old hangars!
    Yes! They have been photographed before so I decided to post pics not included in previous threads.
    I have driven along the M62 so many times and wanted to view this site for a good decade now, well done the person who said they were being torn down for otherwise I would never have had this chance.
    They survived the Luftwaffe, they survived the M62 and even the bad British weather for 50 years - but like most places designed to safeguard our future - the developers arrive with loaded bulldozers and big profit margins!
    These breadheads have no sense of history!
    But enough of my philosophical outbursts...

    Me, Darkscore and Light_arted had initially checked the site at 6.30am, it was very foggy but by the time we returned with our cameras, it had mostly lifted and turned out to be a lovely morning.
    We had started by the first two and then made our way to the three main prominent hangars.

    Three weeks later they were gone!



    Inside 1A.



    The base of the old water tower.







    Looking down, that’s my bag and tripod – not a body!!!





    Looking along the roof of hangar 6E.


    My favourite pic of the explore – I climbed to the top and photographed this light mounting.



    Meee!


    Inside 1E! I could just fit my compact through a gap in the door and take some time exposure shots.


    The old runway leading to the M62 and vanishing under it.

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    Default Re: UASF Burtonwood, Warrington, 10-08

    Ive driven past Burtonwood for years and always wondered what they were like inside. shame theyre gone as they were a landmark.
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    Default Re: UASF Burtonwood, Warrington, 10-08

    Nice


    "How come the compression is so bad on all those shots man? It looks like they've been edited with a Commodore 64." JST

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    Default Re: UASF Burtonwood, Warrington, 10-08

    Well done capturing a interesting bit of history
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    Default Re: UASF Burtonwood, Warrington, 10-08

    nice pictures..cheers for the report.

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    Default Re: UASF Burtonwood, Warrington, 10-08

    Good that you got in an captured a record of what they were like

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    Default Re: UASF Burtonwood, Warrington, 10-08

    That's very nice, would've liked to have seen that.
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    Default Re: USAF Burtonwood, Warrington, 10-08

    Nice work mate. I miss these hangers, these were knocked down to clear room for the Omega development which so far consists of a blocked off road at a roundabout. Utter bollocks.

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