Well, when I was home last year I rode there from Wigan on my bike and spoke to the jobsworth on the gate at ‘A’ site to see if I could go around and take some photos. He said no and gave me some pony about having to write to English partnerships for permission. If I were you, I would go down the road by the old perminter fence, bypass the gate and follow the road around to what seems like a dead end. Over where the road is blocked you can climb over and get access to ‘E’ site without any hassles. If anyone hassles you, just leave the site. They might try and say they can do you for trespass but they can’t. As long as you don’t steal or break anything, they can’t do anything to you but ask you to leave the site. I think the murals are in the blister hangers but they are always locked and there is no way to get access to them. When we were younger we walked right up onto the roof of one of the hangers to have a look (it’s solid concrete!) and promptly got asked to leave by the security who saw our photo flashes!
There is an air raid shelter near there also. That is the part of the airbase where a lot of the B17’s e.t.c were cut up… I bet there is allsorts undeneath the surface!
I have been meaning to go for a drive round there anyway since moving to Warrington (2 years ago now!), so now finally going to do it.
I always used to wonder where the dump was going past in the car!! Now if only I had a metal detecter…… lol
Meanwhile I can recommend have a look round on google earth – you can still make out where a lot of stuff was.
Jon
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