Airship hangars

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The photograph on this page of Airship hangars by Bob Walters as part of the Geograph project.

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Airship hangars

Image: © Bob Walters Taken: 17 Feb 2023

The old airship hangars at Cardington. Known as the Royal Airship Works, it built airships for the Admiralty between 1919 and 1930, until the crash of airship R101 stopped all airship work. It later built barrage balloons for the WW2 effort.

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Image Location

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Latitude
52.109116
Longitude
-0.420155