Description
| Product ID: | 9781445696294 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Through Time |
| Title: | Shropshire Airfields Through Time |
| Authors: | Author: Alec Brew |
| Page Count: | 96 |
| Subjects: | Transport industries, Airports, Local history, Places in old photographs, Local history, Places in old photographs, Shropshire |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Looking at the fascinating history behind the airfields of Shropshire, which was particularly popular during the Second World War. Though there were airfields in Shropshire during the First World War, at Shawbury, Tern Hill and Monkmoor, it was in the late 1930s that a massive building programme began to dot the county with new RAF airfields, mostly for training purposes, until there were over sixteen – in some cases they were so close together that their circuits overlapped.Since the Second World War the number has fallen away, but Shawbury, Tern Hill, Cosford and little Chetwynd are still used by the RAF, and Sleap has been revived for general aviation. In most cases the others have returned to agriculture and a few to industry, with derelict control towers and other iconic buildings remaining as lost sentinels of the days when young men trained to carry the fight into the dark skies of Germany. |
| Imprint Name: | Amberley Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | Amberley Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-12-15 |
