RAF BURTONWOOD has some amazing history and there is a museum connected with it at the GULLIVERS WORLD theme park, a short distance away from the site, and i think its free to enter……….Having worked in WARRINGTON for 20 years now, I have seen the decline and demolition of the older RAF side and also now, the same thing has happend to the USA side which included the massive storage facilty called HEADER HOUSE. even in my short time, i can remember seeing line after line of HUMMER type vehicles. An even today rumours of huge secret underground facilities are often bantered around the internet………The company i worked for had a SUBSTATION on the old RAF site amongst others and whilst we were de-commisioning it, we had to have a GUIGER COUNTER test on the van wheels and our shoes, every time we left a certain part of the site………..apparently it was the old aircraft instrument dump, which we were told used slightly radioactive material (thats what we were told anyway!). On the outskirts of the site The original american prefab living quarters still remain and are known as the TOBACCO HOUSES, and are still lived in as far as i know. As for the HANAGRS that still remain, the two older types are in use as a cladding factory and a fleet car disposal workshop. As for the concrete ones, i know one used to be used to store new cars, But i cant say if any are used today, Also i dont know what the future holds for the hangars, and as has been said earlier in the post, demolition is the most likely option…………………
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