Air Fair at Avro Heritage Museum
AVRO Chadderton 80th Anniversary Lancaster Bomber road journey to Woodford.
The Avro Heritage Museum marked the 80th Anniversary of the opening of the
Avro production factory at Greengate, Chadderton, Oldham on 3rd September
2019 with the unveiling of a commemorative plaque.
This was performed by former Avro Chief Test Pilot, Sir Charles Masefield in
front of a specially invited audience of former Chadderton employees.
During World War 2, the workforce of the Chadderton factory produced 3,032
Lancaster Bomber aircraft for RAF Bomber Command which were all transported,
by road, to Woodford Aerodrome for final assembly, testing and delivery.
As a part of this commemoration, Avro Heritage Museum used their Lancaster
bomber replica, 'S for Sugar', to re-enact the same war time journey taken
by the Lancaster aircraft. It followed the same route, as far as was
possible, through Central Manchester and Stockport.
This film shows the re-enacted journey from the site of the Avro Chadderton
factory to the Avro Heritage Museum at the former Woodford Aerodrome.
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Woodford Aerospace abandoned
this is Woodford Aerospace in Woodford The old abandoned Woodford Aerospace
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The last task at BAE Systems in Woodford is to scrap the £4bn Nimrod spy planes they had spent ten years building. Soon, the factory will close, along with an illustrious chapter of British aviation history.
End of a long legacy at Woodford aerodrome
Among the exhibits at the Avro Heritage Centre, tucked away in the huge BAE Systems site at Woodford, is an aerial photograph, taken by the Luftwaffe in 1940.
Crystal clear, it shows the Avro factory at Woodford, complete with aerodrome – 500 acres of former farmland that should have been an unmissable target for the bomb-aimers of Hitler’s air force.
But though the Luftwaffe rained their explosives down on Manchester the same year that photograph was taken, they never ventured those few miles south to attack Woodford.
Overlooking the factory at Woodford may have been one of the great miscalculations of the Second World War. The year after that spy picture was taken, the first Lancaster bomber was flown from an experimental unit at Ringway, now Manchester Airport.
Scores of factories were then set to work making parts for Lancasters, which were then pieced together like giant Airfix kits at Woodford. In its best month, June 1944, the quarter-mile long assembly lines at Woodford sent 156 Lancaster bombers out of the door, down the runway and off to war. A total of 7,377 of these four-engined bombers were built in all, playing a role in the Dambusters raid and in practically every significant air raid operation of the war.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur ‘Bomber’ Harris, head of Bomber Command, wrote a thank-you letter to Avro in these terms: “I would say this to those who placed that shining sword in our hands: without your genius and efforts, we could not have prevailed, for I believe the Lancaster was the greatest single factor in winning the war.”
The uncomfortable truth about Woodford’s 86-year history is that war was always good for business, driving technological advance and commercial success.
In coming weeks, Woodford’s long aviation legacy comes to an end. The last heartbreaking job for BAE Systems in Woodford is to chop up nine Nimrod MRA4 spy planes, built at a cost of £450m each, but axed in the government’s defence review before they even entered service.
It had been known for years that the Woodford site had no future beyond the Nimrod project. The defence review merely hastened the inevitable. By the end of this month, many of the 450 staff will be gone, leaving just a rump to tidy up and make the factory safe. Talks have started with Stockport council about the future of this huge piece of real estate, but a BAE spokesman could not comment on possible future uses.
One certainty is that the history will not be forgotten. The Avro Heritage Centre, celebrating the work at Woodford and sister factories such as that at Chadderton, will remain. It is a history which stretches back to the dawn of aviation.
Alliott Verdon Roe was born in 1877, the son of a GP in Patricroft, Eccles. A quiet, eccentric man, he served in the Merchant Navy where he became fascinated with the flight of the albatross and enthused by the pioneering aviation feats of the Wright Brothers.
In July 1909, Roe’s triplane flew 100ft at Lea Marshes, Essex, making Roe the first Englishman to fly an all-British aeroplane. A Roe family meeting was convened and it was decided that AV should make a go of aircraft production under his brother’s guidance at Brownsfield Mill in Ancoats.
The company was formed on January 1, 1910, and the Avro 500 biplane was soon putting in an impressive show at a military trial.
“They were asked to climb to 1,000ft,” says Jenks. “The other aircraft were like glorified box kites. They’d take half an hour or more, but the 500 just went straight up to 1,000ft and stayed there. It was way ahead of anything else.”
The Avro 504 went on to become the first bomber in the Royal Flying Corps, used on an aerial bombardment of Cologne, the bombs dropped overboard by hand. It became the RFC’s main training aircraft at a time when Britain’s pilots were dying in droves at the hands of more experienced German pilots. Demand for the plane was so great that Avro expanded into Newton Heath.
But peace time brought a slump in Avro’s fortunes. War surplus 504s were used to give pleasure flights to the public, and the company diversified, even producing billiard tables and prams.
In 1924, AV Roe bought New Hall Farm at Woodford. The factory there at first used hurricane lamps for light, and water had to be brought by hand from a stream. But the next year, the first Woodford air show was staged, offering joyrides and enthusing the public with the thrill and romance of aviation.
“For one of the shows, they got about 25,000 people arriving, here in the sticks,” says Jenks. “Bramhall was only a tiny village and they must have come from
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Abandoned Woodford Aerodrome Part 1
We are two mates from the Macclesfield area of Cheshire who love to explore and capture abandoned places. If you know any or want to collaborate hit us up!
In this video we explore Woodford Aerodrome which was a former aircraft factory established in 1925 and closed in 2011. The last remaining part we explored is quite a large area but is due to be demolished soon so hurry if you want to see the remnants of the home of the Lancaster bomber!
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Woodford areospace
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The aerodrome opened in 1924 when successful aviation pioneer Alliott Verdon-Roe bought the original farmland to enable his Avro company to move its aeroplane assembly and test flying facilities from Alexandra Park Aerodrome in south Manchester. Originally it had a small grass landing area with several temporary Bessonneau hangars. The Lancashire Aero Club also used the aerodrome briefly in the 1920s until moving to the new Barton Aerodrome and used a converted farm building as a clubhouse and a 'Dutch barn' style steel-framed hangar built for A V Roe around 1927.
By the late 1930s, the aerodrome was upgraded with the construction of concrete runways; the main runway was also extended to the east. Increased factory space.
Woodford became part of BAE Systems as a result of the £7.7 billion merger of British Aerospace (BAe) and Marconi Electronic Systems (MES) in November 1999. The aerodrome and factory became known as BAE Systems Woodford until it was sold in late 2011. The site was due to close anyway in 2012 when its Nimrod project was to be completed but in late 2010 the Woodford-built BAE Nimrod MRA4 project was cancelled. It was previously believed that some jobs would be transferred to BAE Systems' Military Air Solutions headquarters in Preston, Lancashire. However, following the cancellation of aircraft orders in the British Government's Strategic Defence and Security Review, the site closed as an active airfield on 25 August 2011.
On 20 December 2011 the site was purchased for £100m by Jo Bamford, the heir to the JCB fortune. A new housing estate called Woodford Garden Village is under construction on the site
(This was not a tour,we spent 5 hours exploring this place then security turned up????)
Many aircraft types have been built at Woodford, apart from the BAe 146, also first flown at Woodford including:
•Avro Anson
•Avro Lancaster
•Avro Lincoln
•Avro Tudor
•Avro Shackleton
•Avro 707
•Avro Vulcan
•Avro Ashton
•Hawker Siddeley HS 748
•Hawker Siddeley Nimrod
•BAe ATP
•BAe 146
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Woodford destroyed.
The Manchester site for aircraft production is almost gone.
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A Nation Of Airmen (1925)
Item title reads - A nation of airmen! Lancashire Aero Club successfully inaugurated. Woodford Aerodrome, Near Wilmslow. (now Cheshire).
M/S of a pilot climbing out of his aeroplane. M/S of four men lined up. M/S of an aeroplane, M/S of the pilot in it. M/S as it taxis and takes off.
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Avro Lancaster
The Avro Lancaster is a British four-engined Second World War heavy bomber designed and built by Avro for the Royal Air Force (RAF). It first saw active service with RAF Bomber Command in 1942 and, as the strategic bombing offensive over Europe gathered momentum, it became the main heavy bomber used by the RAF, the RCAF, and squadrons from other Commonwealth and European countries serving within the RAF, overshadowing its close contemporaries the Handley Page Halifax and Short Stirling. The Lanc, as it was affectionately known, thus became the most famous and most successful of the Second World War night bombers, delivering 608,612 long tons of bombs in 156,000 sorties.
The Lancaster, an evolution of the troublesome Avro Manchester, was designed by Roy Chadwick and was powered by four Rolls-Royce Merlins, or, in one version, Bristol Hercules engines.
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