Croydon Pics

Originally posted by A330Crazy
Thanks for the comments. 🙂

Dux hawk, next Sunday, if your not busy of course, is the dat to go. Its their monthly openday. It will be the first time i have attended it. I hear that its supposed to be quite a good event.

The visitors centre is open on the first sunday of every month. 🙂

Hope this helps. 🙂

If i can i may go along and visit.thanks

Very nice pictures A330CRAZY thanks for posting them.

The propeller planes have much more style than the new jumbo junk! Thanx again!

Renfrew was being used for aviation from 1912 and that terminal building was built in 1954. Sadly, by the seventies it was derelict after all services were transferred to nearby GLA in 1966.

EAL340… me a time waster? From what i saw last night on the GD forum, you were the one time wasting!

Allen, nice shots of RenFrew. For a 60’s-70’s airport, its looked very futuristic.

Thanks again people for the comments. 🙂

Just before demolition with the glass removed…

Originally posted by Hatton
Perhaps because not everyone on here visits the Airliner Forum and not everyone on the Airliner Forum comes on here 🙂

Thanks A330 for the photos.

steve

Exactly.

Nice pics Andrew, I love old airport buildings like that, very evocative of times past and the romance of aviation. I wish they’d kept the old Renfrew Airport terminal intact after it closed. They dithered and dithered before eventually demolishing it and building a Tesco’s store in the late 70’s, some ten years after it closed to make way for Glasgow Airport.

Here it is in it’s prime and just before demolition.

Perhaps because not everyone on here visits the Airliner Forum and not everyone on the Airliner Forum comes on here 🙂

Thanks A330 for the photos.

steve

Thanks for the comments. 🙂

Dux hawk, next Sunday, if your not busy of course, is the dat to go. Its their monthly openday. It will be the first time i have attended it. I hear that its supposed to be quite a good event.

The visitors centre is open on the first sunday of every month. 🙂

Hope this helps. 🙂

Originally posted by A330Crazy
G-AOXL from the front.

Aah nice to see my town on here,funny to think croydon was once the Main London airport maybe if things had been different croydon could have been as huge as Heathrow,I always admire G-AOXL when i go past she looks great lit up at night too,I confess never been in the terminal buildings yet though and i know i should as its on my doorstep so to speak.

Nose close up.

G-AOXL from the front.

Front of the old Terminal Building.

This I think was one of my best from the set.

Tail.

Rear.