North Weald Hangar

Introduction

The photograph on this page of North Weald Hangar by Glyn Baker as part of the Geograph project.

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North Weald Hangar

Image: © Glyn Baker Taken: 29 Oct 2006

This is one of the surviving hangars on North Weald Aerodrome. I strongly suspect this is a pre WW2 example. It is now used for industrial units. There is a memorial to those that served here at Image To go to the next field in an alphabetical tour of Essex WW2 airfields click on Image Much information as gleaned from Graham Smith’s book “Essex Airfields In The Second World War”. https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Essex_Airfields_in_the_Second_World_War.html?id=u3atAAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

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Image Location

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Latitude
51.71388
Longitude
0.15462