Hi all
A freind of mine is doing some family history and it would appear her grandad was a aircraft engineer at the now Prestwick Airport, could anybody help me with a history of the place.
She is compiling a family history book/tree type thing and would dearly love some pictures (now or the 1940-onwards) of the place and the aircraft produced there, so any pictures wich are none copyrighted that she could use would be great.
Any help would be greatly appriciated.
ps, i have checked out wikipidia which does help
Chris
By: longshot - 22nd June 2012 at 14:02
I was thinking of the IWM’s online collection of Prestwick photos (about 10 pages)
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search?query=prestwick&items_per_page=10
By: longshot - 22nd June 2012 at 00:04
Trying to find a LIFE essay on Prestwick I found these shots of F-80s arriving in Glasgow but they were assembled at Renfrew it seems (with the dock cranes visible in the photos)
http://images.google.com/search?q=walter+sanders+scotland+1948&q=source%3Alife&biw=1440&bih=663&sei=s6vjT5apDcO1hAfphNTRCQ&tbm=isch
http://images.google.com/search?q=walter+sanders+september+1948&q=source%3Alife&biw=1440&bih=663&sei=larjT8W8L4bIhAefyYnCCQ&tbm=isch
By: Foray - 21st June 2012 at 22:34
Prestwick
Try “Lion Rampant & Winged – a commemorative history of Scottish Aviation” by Alan Robertson. I believe it was privately publish and is effectively a history of Prestwick airport.
By: GrahamSimons - 21st June 2012 at 07:14
I’m fairly certain there was a Focus publication on Prestwick a few years ago….and there is this….
Prestwick Airport (Archive Photographs) [Paperback]
Peter Berry (Author)
Yep… still got plenty!
By: daveg4otu - 20th June 2012 at 21:46
I’m fairly certain there was a Focus publication on Prestwick a few years ago….and there is this….
Prestwick Airport (Archive Photographs) [Paperback]
Peter Berry (Author)
By: Chris Wizz - 20th June 2012 at 21:12
Thanks for the replies, it has certainly given me something to look into.
Thank you
By: Atcham Tower - 20th June 2012 at 19:08
Try this fantastic archive, Chris. There are literally dozens of Prestwick photos if you dig around. If it’s a private publication for family consumption only, I can’t think it would be difficult to get permission to use some of them. There are a few WW2 images floating around the Web but I can’t remember where.
By: pagen01 - 20th June 2012 at 18:31
The Airfield Information Exchange is a good place to start, though they seem to have little about Prestwick so far, here, http://www.airfieldinformationexchange.org/community/showthread.php?441-Prestwick-HMS-Gannet
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June 20, 2012 at 6:27 pm