Walsall/Aldridge Aerodrome.

Moved…

Photos showing the Halliwell hangars at Walsall Airport in 1939

http://www.airteamimages.com/de-havilland-tiger-moth_G-AFNS_-private_113635.html

http://www.airteamimages.com/de-havilland-tiger-moth_G-AFNP_-private_113719.html

Cheers,

Derek

Yes – that site used to have these listed under ‘Castle Bromwich’…..!

And your overhead! 🙂

http://www.content-delivery.co.uk/aviation/airfields/Walsall.html

Thanks very much for the guidance guys. Thanks especially to Viscount for his kind and gererous offer. I have just discovered that a friend has the Shipley & Jefferies book, which he’ll drop in over the next couple of days so I’ll be sorted on that book. I’ll be interested to see what images it holds. 🙂

Let me know if it has any shots of my old Pou-du-Ciel, G-AEOH, which flew there in the hands of its builder, R.C. Streather.

Photos showing the Halliwell hangars at Walsall Airport in 1939

http://www.airteamimages.com/de-havilland-tiger-moth_G-AFNS_-private_113635.html

http://www.airteamimages.com/de-havilland-tiger-moth_G-AFNP_-private_113719.html

Cheers,

Derek

Many Thanks.

Thanks very much for the guidance guys. Thanks especially to Viscount for his kind and gererous offer. I have just discovered that a friend has the Shipley & Jefferies book, which he’ll drop in over the next couple of days so I’ll be sorted on that book. I’ll be interested to see what images it holds. 🙂

It is supposed to be an early postwar image
http://www.airfieldinformationexchange.org/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=1211&d=1266351821

Walsall Airport ca 1939-1945
http://www.aclickintime.co.uk/jpgl/11754.jpg

I have a copy of a hard-back book “Walsall Aviation – a Short History of Aviation in the Walsall Area”, Edwin Shipley & John W.T.Jeffries, no publication date, 76 pages, illustrated.

Presumably the same Walsall, as in north of Birmingham, UK, that you are looking for (got to ask, there might be one in Australia too – I’ve fallen for that one before on this forum!). My copy is very slightly water damaged, but quite readable. Snoopy, PM me if interested as I have no real use for it in my groaning book case, it’s sat there waiting for the right person to come along to give it an appreciated home. I bought it originally not so much for the content (having no connections with the area), but as a great example of where to source and put a wide of variety of 30’s material together to produce an interesting narrative.

Snoops…………..

Have you seen Edwin Shipley and John Jeffries’s book Walsall Aviation – A Short History of Aviation in the Walsall Area?

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