Brooklands Community Park
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Brooklands Community Park by Alan Hunt as part of the Geograph project.
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Brooklands Community Park
Image: © Alan Hunt Taken: 15 Apr 2013
A tarmac taxiway, a relic of the Vickers aircraft factory that occupied the Brooklands site from 1915 until it became part of British Aerospace in 1977. The factory finally closed in the 1980s. The lighter coloured tarmac in the background indicates where the racing circuit ran.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.346143
Longitude
-0.466778