Before Manchester Airport became Britain's third busiest airport and acting as a gateway to half the world, it started off as a humble grassy landing strip, beside a couple of rudimentary hangars... in the tiny Cheshire parish of Ringway. Within a year of it opening in 1938, it was taken over by the Royal Air Force and quickly found its wartime use as both a parachute training school and an assembly site for major fighter and bomber aircraft.
But what came before it, what came after it, and how did this lead to the city-sized super site in place today?
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8 июн 2024