Monument record 2855/0/4 - Motor Transport Sheds, Hooton Park Airfield

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Motor Transport sheds built in 1917 for the Royal Flying Corps. In 1914 the Government requisitioned the hall and estate of Hooton Park, for use as a military training ground. The army were originally stationed here before the Royal Flying Corps selected the site for use as an aerodrome and hundreds of pilots were trained here. In 1927 the site was acquired for the new Liverpool Airport. The site was the home to No.610 squadron Auxiliary Airforce from 1936. Prior to WWII they were re-equipped with spitfires for convoy duty in the Atlantic. Later the site was used as an aircraft store and dump. After the war it was used as a base for the No.’s 610, 611 and 633 squadrons of the Auxiliary Airforce.

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<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 490368 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Motor Transport sheds built in 1917 for the Royal Flying Corps. Rendered brick with sheet metal roofs, boarded under. Each range of 13 bays long and rectangular plan with workshops in rear outshut. Each bay divided by a brick pier, and timber internal trusses braced to side walls by raking side struts. These motor transport stores and garages form part of one of the most complete hangar groupings of the First World War period, of significance in both British and European context. It is included for this reason, there being also buildings of this type at Duxford and Old Sarum.

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  • <1> Digital Archive: English Heritage. 2005. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. 490368.

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Grid reference Centred SJ 372 787 (52m by 55m) (2 map features)
Map sheet SJ37NE
Civil Parish ELLESMERE PORT NON-PARISH AREA, ELLESMERE PORT AND NESTON, CHESHIRE WEST AND CHESTER
Historic Township/Parish/County HOOTON, EASTHAM, CHESHIRE

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Dec 15 2021 9:41AM