Storm Dudley/Eunice/Franklin

Eccles Blue said:
It was intended as a temporary airport and was called Manchester (Wythenshawe) Aerodrome. Barton Aerodrome later City Airport Manchesterwas the main airport from 1928 until 1938. Then Wythenshawe became Ringway.

A mine of useless facts that’s me! Unfortunately for you I’m here all week. Well actually, unless the Mods ban me, I’m here for the duration. :-) ;-) :-)

EDIT: Whoops I see @mexico1970 beat me to it, although my information came from the History of Barton airport! :-)
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Wythenshawe Aerodrome was the one at the side of Wythenshawe park, the original one on Rackhouse rd. MIA was known as Ringway....I've never heard it ever called Wythenshawe airport. I've lived in the area all my life...In fact, up until a few years back you could see the Control tower from my bedroom window.
 
As still as a sleeping dormouse where I am at the mo (Bromley/Croydon). Too excited to go to bed but also aware that I'll probably crash out in an hour and sleep through it all, as I did during the storm in 1987.

Woke up that morning a bit surprised that my clock radio alarm wasn't working, didn't think anything of that and trudged sleepily along the corridor to the loo for a morning wee. KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK!!! somebody scared the shite out of me, banging on the ground floor frosted window. It was my boss, who had come round to wake me up as all power was out and phone lines down. I put percy back in his cage, dressed, and went out to survey the scene. It was like God had playing pick-up-sticks with the trees along the road. Every other one was felled for about a three mile stretch into London. A remarkable sight and I vividly remember driving along in pissed zig zag fashion for ages, sometimes driving on the pavements having to squeeze between garden walls and kerbside to navigate the trees. In a luton van.
 
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