IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Newton Street, BEDFORD, MK42 0UQ
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Newton Street, MK42 0UQ by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (25 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image
Details
Distance
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Beginning of new road construction towards the hangars
Image: © Philip Jeffrey
Taken: 3 Oct 2014
0.08 miles
4
Cardington hangars
Viewed from the site entrance.
Image: © Michael Trolove
Taken: 25 Jun 2017
0.09 miles
6
Balloons and Hangars, Cardington, 1979
Balloons, similar to the war-time barrage balloons, being used by the Meteorological Office experimental unit based at Cardington in Hangar 1 on the left, partly hidden by the tree. Hangar No.2 on the right was then being used by the Fire Research Station based at Borehamwood (see Image) for large-scale fire and explosion tests that could not be carried out at Borehamwood.
(Photo scanned directly from a High-speed Ektachrome 35mm slide.)
Image: © John Webb
Taken: Unknown
0.11 miles
7
Roundabout on A600 at Shortstown
This roundabout gives access to the southern end of Shortstown and was funded for as part of recent expansion of the original village west of the A600. More significant expansion is planned for the old airfield site to the east, and the original intention was that this would be the start of a relief road round the village. However, latest plans approved by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, overriding local preferences, would see a widened A600 cutting through the middle of the expanded village.
In the background are the two Grade II* airship sheds, built in 1918 and 1926 and a dominant feature of the landscape south of Bedford.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 13 Mar 2008
0.13 miles
8
Cardington hangars
These are for airships
Image: © David Howard
Taken: 15 Oct 2017
0.14 miles
9
Ghost of R101
This is the sadly neglected shed No 1 once used for housing the mighty airships. The ill-fated R101 was often seen round these parts during its trials and left from this very place before crashing near Beauvais in France en route to India in 1930 http://www.airshipsonline.com/airships/r101/Crash/R101_Crash.htm , effectively scuppering any further development of the extra large aircraft. Meantime, the German zeppelins ruled the lighter than air skies until 1937.
More recently, plans to recreate enormous volumed ships as 'floating cranes' have emerged http://www.cargolifter.com/index.php?id=8&L=1 , so we may yet see them return to the skies.
Image: © Ian Paterson
Taken: 23 Apr 2009
0.14 miles
10
New houses on High Road, Shortstown
These are at the start of the new A600 bypass which goes round the village.
Image: © David Howard
Taken: 15 Oct 2017
0.14 miles