Meir Aerodrome closed in the early 1970s and the site has now become the Meir Park housing estate.
The earlier parts have mainly aviation-associated street names. The last official flight was on 16 August 1973 when Fred Holdcroft flew a Piper Tri-Pacer carrying a Sentinel journalist to Manchester. The last unofficial flight a year or two later by Eric Clutton was in a home-made folding machine called FRED Flying Runabout Experimental Design which the pilot towed home behind his car. The light planes used to be parked on the grass alongside the A50 road, opposite the Airport Garage, which remains. Staffordshire Potteries had a factory now demolished beside the aerodrome.
The site is now bnq, tesco, Aldi, west bridge furniture then wells warehouse and afew other warehouses which keep changing there name.
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16 окт 2024