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Cardington Airfield Airship Sheds
These sheds are 55m high and about 247m long by 83m across.
Image: © PAUL FARMER
Taken: 8 Nov 2015
0.04 miles
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Cardington Hangars 1 and 2
The massive Cardington Airship Hangars 1 and 2 brooding over the neighbouring arable land - 180 feet high and 280 feet wide at their base they dominate the surrounding countryside. Hangar 1 to the right is currently being repaired and re-clad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardington,_Bedfordshire
Image: © Peter Evans
Taken: 16 May 2013
0.05 miles
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Cardington Hangars 1 and 2
The view South to the massive, brooding airship hangars at Cardington near Bedford. Over 800 feet in length, 180 wide and over 150 high. The hangars built to construct and house Britain's airships of the 1920's and put to a number of uses in more recent years. Hangar 1 (the closest in this photo) is currently undergoing a large renovation project to repair and re-clad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Cardington
Image: © Peter Evans
Taken: 16 May 2013
0.06 miles
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Cardington Hangars 1 and 2
The historic airship hangars at Cardington near Bedford. The massive hangars built to construct and house Britain's airships of the 1920's and put to a number of uses in more recent years. Hangar 1 (the furthest away in this photo) is currently undergoing a large renovation project to repair and re-clad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Cardington
Image: © Peter Evans
Taken: 16 May 2013
0.06 miles
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Cardington Airship Hangars
Viewed from the east. See
Image for excellent description and links.
The nearer shed is No.2 shed. From 1970 onwards it was leased by the Fire Research Station (based in Borehamwood, Herts) as a large scale test facility, where fires could be lit in relatively still-air conditions. It eventually became part of the Building Research Establishment, which became BRE Ltd. in 1997, when privatised out of the civil service. No.2 hangar is in much better condition than No. 1, as it was completely reclad in the late 1980s.
Description augmented by another member.
Image: © Jonathan Billinger
Taken: 15 Apr 2008
0.07 miles
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Cardington Airship Hangar No. 2 - Interior photo of E end in 1970
Part of the east end of Hangar No. 2 photographed in 1970. We are looking down from the central roof catwalk 163 feet above the floor of the hangar at an experimental high-rack storage system being subjected to fire tests by the Fire Research Station. (See
Image for a more general view of the interior.)
Image: © John Webb
Taken: Unknown
0.08 miles
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Cardington airship hangars with tethered airship
Image: © Philip Jeffrey
Taken: 9 May 1994
0.08 miles
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Airship Hangar No. 2 - Interior in 1970
A view from the central staircase on the north side of the hangar looking towards the east end from about 70 feet above floor level. This view was taken shortly after the Fire Research Station (then based at Borehamwood, Herts) leased part of the hangar from the Ministry of Defence for tests on high-rack storage. The racking in the middle distance of the photograph is about 40 feet high, to give some idea of the scale of this building.
For a more recent view see
Image
Image: © John Webb
Taken: Unknown
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Airship hangars
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.
Image: © Bob Walters
Taken: 17 Feb 2023
0.09 miles
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RAF Cardington, Airship hangars
These were built in the 20's to house airships. Following the disaster with the R101, all work on airships was discontinued.
Image: © Bikeboy
Taken: 30 May 2015
0.09 miles