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Armed Forces / Re: RAF Haydock
« on: Saturday 15 September 07 09:30 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: IMBER on Friday 14 September 07 11:06 BST (UK)
Information on this RAF location is available in official records should anyone wish to explore further. RAF Blackbrook and RAF Haydock are one and the same place.  The site plans for both are held at the RAF Museum, Hendon and are identical.  The Operations Records Books for both RAF Blackbrook and RAF Haydock are held at the National Archives, Kew under AIR 28 and AIR 29. I accept that this information was just put there by another human being but it seems it's the best we've got if anyone is serious about taking this further.  I was careful not to use Google.

Thank you.

Using Google isn't an issue, aslong as you can interpret the sources it provides.

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Armed Forces / Re: RAF Haydock
« on: Friday 10 August 07 18:35 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Dancing Master on Friday 10 August 07 18:05 BST (UK)
Well you cannot believe everything you read on Google, its only information put there by another human being not necessarily correct or even checked out.

I never ever use Google as a search engine.


Which search engine do you use?

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Armed Forces / Re: RAF Haydock
« on: Friday 10 August 07 17:58 BST (UK)  »
All I can say is read the .pdf file I linked too. That and information about RAF Haydock turns up on Google when you search for RAF Blackbrook... ;)

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Armed Forces / Re: RAF Haydock
« on: Friday 10 August 07 15:24 BST (UK)  »
I'm not sure if this is a widely known fact but RAF Haydock was known as RAF Blackbrook during the second world war, as measure of secracy.

The staff of the North Western Signals Centre (NWCC), or atleast some of them, were billeted at Winstanley Hall near Wigan. The hall today is in a very poor state as can be seen here and information regarding the RAF use of the hall here, that information was found from a publication called Past Forward produced by Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust here pages 37 to 39. The hall was used as the Officers mess, whilst the non-commissioned ranks were billeted in Nissen huts in the grounds.

I hope this helps, I came across this forum and thread whilst searching for information on RAF Haydock myself.

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