RAF FAZACKERLEY

[Flygirluc]

Hi,
       Can anyone please inform me when this unit actually closed down. I know that there was a Royal Ordnance Factory within the perimeter of the camp. Which establishment became defunct first?
       Initially  the personnel  of  N.W.C.C  ( RAF Haydock nee blackbrook) lived  on  Fazackerley while the old wartime camp up the East Lancs was rebuilt.  The signals staff use to bus it backwards and forewards to Haydock for duty, until the accommodation blocks there were completed that is.
       Regards,
          Flygirluc.

[kyt]

The announcement for the closure of the ROF was made in April 1960, and started closing in June 1960.

The info I have implies that the RAF station closed in 1959 but I cannot confirm that

[Flygirluc]

Hi,
     Thanks for that info kyt.  I was stationed at "Faz" in 1952. Living in the huts there, and busing it to and from RAF Haydock  to work the switchboards at North West C.C.  When the new accommodation blocks were completed at Haydock (nee RAF Blackbrook) the signals staff moved up the "East Lancs" to the refurbished unit. Later I was posted to Egypt to RAF Abu Suier. During my tour there, I had to return home on compassionate leave when my father suffered from a stroke in 1953. --- I hail from Liverpool, so I had to go to Fazackerely to inquire when would I have to return to the "Canal Zone".  " Faz" had quite a large M.T. Section when I was there ( I suppose this was to due to the large volume of  stores, equipment, and personnel passing through the Liverpool docks. I remember our WRAF Officer I.C.  name was Pilot Officer  De-Arth. She was still on the Unit at that time.
    Regards,
      Flygirluc