Disused Control Tower, Pershore airfield

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Disused Control Tower, Pershore airfield by Richard Dunn as part of the Geograph project.

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Disused Control Tower, Pershore airfield

Image: © Richard Dunn Taken: 17 May 2005

1934-1939 Pershore was home to the Worcestershire flying school flying Tiger Moths, at the start of WW2 it was requisitioned, 1941-1944 Operational training unit for Royal Canadian Air Force flying Wellingtons, after the war it became the flying unit for the radar research establishment and recently has become the burial ground for thousands of animals after the 2001 foot & mouth outbreak.

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Image Location

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Latitude
52.143785
Longitude
-2.037948