EAW004181 ENGLAND (1947). Bristol Filton Airport showing the main runway being extended, Catbrain, from the west, 1947

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Title [EAW004181] Bristol Filton Airport showing the main runway being extended, Catbrain, from the west, 1947
Reference EAW004181
Date 10-April-1947
Link
Place name CATBRAIN
Parish ALMONDSBURY
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 357688, 180375
Longitude / Latitude -2.6099022023326, 51.520225825549
National Grid Reference ST577804

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2ndWW watch office.

redmist
Saturday 14th of November 2020 01:48:58 PM
2ndWW small arms range.

redmist
Saturday 14th of November 2020 01:46:54 PM
Approx location of a 2ndWW LAA (Bofors) gun position, (still surviving GE 2018).

redmist
Saturday 14th of November 2020 01:45:32 PM
Recorded approx location of a 2ndWW

redmist
Saturday 14th of November 2020 01:44:18 PM
Recorded approx location of a 2ndWW LAA (Bofors) gun position, designation 7.

redmist
Saturday 14th of November 2020 01:43:51 PM
Recorded approx location of a 2ndWW LAA (Bofors) gun position, designation 9.

redmist
Saturday 14th of November 2020 01:43:20 PM
2ndWW radar tower, (still survivng)

redmist
Saturday 14th of November 2020 01:42:41 PM
2ndWW pillbox.

redmist
Saturday 14th of November 2020 01:41:39 PM
2ndWW pillbox.

redmist
Saturday 14th of November 2020 01:41:09 PM
2ndWW RAF Battle Headquarters.

redmist
Saturday 14th of November 2020 01:40:41 PM
2ndWW Bofors Gun Tower.

redmist
Saturday 14th of November 2020 01:40:06 PM
2ndWW Bofors Gun Tower.

redmist
Saturday 14th of November 2020 01:37:33 PM
Filton Golf Club Clubhouse

Jo
Tuesday 19th of May 2020 07:38:13 PM
Catbrain Lane.

Buzzard
Tuesday 19th of May 2015 11:27:58 PM
The dual carriageway Filton By-Pass was severed by the construction of the extended runway. Many people will remember the truncated remains at the north side of the runway in the 1960's and 1970's . Does anyone have any further information about this road closure?

Class31
Wednesday 25th of September 2013 04:42:17 PM
New assembly hall under construction. Part of the Brabazon Project

MB
Thursday 5th of September 2013 11:46:46 PM

User Comment Contributions

Ironic that photographs get posted as the runway is closing down.

Horace
Wednesday 25th of September 2013 04:26:09 PM
The new runway was 2,725 yards long and 100 yards wide. It was completed in March 1948 and was constructed by John Laing. It was needed for the Brabazon - a huge 4-engined airliner that dwarfed an Avro Lancaster and was seen as the future for trans-Atlantic passenger flight. It never saw commercial service. The project was cancelled in 1952 and the prototypes scrapped. Apparently '..the Minister of Aircraft Production decided to have it built, without asking who wanted it, or who was prepared to use it .. a somewhat strange piece of forward planning'. [Lord Brabazon, 1956]. [A situation somewhat akin to the High Speed 2 rail line today, some might argue]. The runway, which involved the destruction of most of the village of Charlton, survives.

[Source: Graham M Simons, Bristol Brabazon, The History Press, 2012]

MB
Friday 6th of September 2013 12:02:53 AM