Sujet

Filton Airfield, South Gloucestershire, 11/06/1947. Creator: John Laing plc.

Légende

Filton Airfield, South Gloucestershire, 11/06/1947. An aerial view showing derrick cranes and a concrete batching plant amid heaps of aggregate at Filton Airfield, during the construction of a new runway. Laing extended the runway westwards at Filton Airfield to accommodate the Bristol Brabazon airliner, which was being built at the airfield. Work began in July 1946 on the new runway, which was 2,725 yards long and 100 yards wide. The work required the requisitioning and removal of Charlton village and a temporary flying strip was laid, for use while the new runway was under construction. The negative of this print was digitised and catalogued as part of the Britain from Above project.

Date

1947

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Notre référence

HRM22A00_006

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

146,7Mo (5,5Mo) / 70,0cm x 52,5cm / 8272 x 6200 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation England work engineering country flight British crane cranes runway English location infrastructure century Britain aviation concept airfield civil engineering Bristol heap B&W 1940s derrick aerial view heaps Forties Construction Industry bird's eye view aerial photography black & white black and white building materials B W 20th century decade TGN working photograph aggregate Filton landing ground Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc concrete batching plant John Laing & Co John Laing and Company John Laing & Company John Laing and Co Filton Aerodrome Filton Airfield