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Merlin Way, EPPING, CM16 6HR

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

The NWAMA Collection is housed in the former RAF North Weald Station Office.

The museum is housed in the former RAF North Weald Station Office. It is adjacent to what was the main entrance to this former Battle of Britain Fighter Station.

North Weald was one of the Battle of Britain airfields and the memorial outside the main gates is to all those who served between 1940 and 1945. For the memorial's setting see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5574232 For more of the history of the airfield see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Weald_Airfield

This is the memorial to all those who served on North Weald Airfield throughout its service life especially those killed either by enemy action or accident in peacetime or in war. It stands at the old main gate to the airfield. The obelisk in the centre is the Image . North Weald opened in 1916 for home defence against Zeppelin raids. It was developed in then 1920s and '30s. It became a sector station of 11 Group. A Pilot from North Weald became the first RAF casualty of WW2 when a Hurricane Squadron from here was set upon by Spitfires from Hornchurch! North Weald was attacked many times during WW2 the memorial was erected in September 2000 on the 60th anniversary of the heaviest raid. The building in the background is Ad Astra House the old gate house and now Image

This is the memorial to the Norwegian airmen who served at North Weald Aerodrome during WW2. It was dedicated by Princess Astrid in 1953 it became a focus of a much larger memorial when Image was built in 2000.

This is the door in the Image behind which copies of the roll of honour are kept; visitors are invited to take a copy. I thought the fallen oak leaf captured on a cobweb was quite poignant

More information on the memorial is here: http://www.northwealdairfieldhistory.org/content/debt-honour

North Weald was one of the Battle of Britain airfields and the memorial outside the main gates is to all those who served between 1940 and 1945. For a close up of the memorial see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5574233 For more of the history of the airfield see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Weald_Airfield