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Sharing our memories of Heald Green
Last Updated 13thApril 2025
Maintenance Unit 61, RAF Handforth
By Helen Morgan
First Published on Facebook 07/02/2025
Last Updated 13/04/2025
Satellite storage depots across Heald Green housing spare parts from utensils and tools to engine parts.
Fig. 1 Map of all MU 61 sites
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Site 2 was off Outwood Road with its entrance for lorries down the side of where the Life Church is now and Hathaway Close. Site B3 was on Cross Road where the Guide hut and the Hub are now. Site B4 was opposite where Outwood Road Farm was (now Outwood Primary school) and is now a row of terraced houses built by Manchester Corporation. Camp B was off Wilmslow Road behind what is now Hunter’s airport parking. As you can see there were a lot of sites around us in Cheadle Hulme, Bramhall, Woodford, Styal and Handforth. The main headquarters for RAF Handforth was off Spath Lane, Handforth.
Now in Joan Heinekey’s fantastic book, Heald Green in Wartime, page 62 shows a map from the Imperial War Museum. The map makes it look like Site 2 is solely MU61 and it states that Camp B, was Maintenance Unit 75. That was RAF Wilmslow, whose base was where Summerfields Estate is in Wilmslow and a bit of Dean Row. On the website for RAF Wilmslow, it says that it was a camp for recruitment and training and not to be confused with RAF Handforth which was solely a maintenance unit and stores. I am therefore none the wiser, suffice to say that everyone I have spoken to only remembers MU61, whereas Joan must have spoken to villagers who must have told her about MU75. For this article I am solely calling all the depots MU61 and therefore all linked to RAF Handforth.
Fig. 2 Now and then MU Sites
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This is site 2, as a now and then comparison, just to give you an idea of the size of the area. It covered Avon Road, Roundhey, Crantock Drive, and Baslow Drive housing estates. At the top of the black and white photo was Oak Farm on Finney Lane. John Price the farmer had some of his land requisitioned by the Air Ministry. Not on the photo but on Outwood Road, was Brookfield Farm, known as Hancock’s farm locally and it too had land taken from it for the war effort.
Let’s go back to what was there before. During the 17th century enclosure of land was taking place through Acts of Parliament. Prior to this land was open communal land with perhaps a gentleman’s agreement for who owned what. Now landowners hoped to maximise their rents, or tenant farmers hoped to improve their farms and output. By 1750 this had become normal practice and the landscape changed forever as fields were planted with hedges or fenced off. However, in the Bolshaw and Outwood area, enclosure arrived far later in 1810.
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In 1839 Mr H W Turner owned around 30 acres of land. The occupier and farmer was Samuel Johnson. The farmhouse and yard were where the entrance to Avon Road is and Lydney Avenue. His fields were a mixture of arable, pasture and meadows. The names of the fields proving that there was clay soil with nearer marl field and further marl field (now the open space in the middle of the housing estates). Higher wheat field for pasture was where Roundhey is. Barn Meadow was where Lydney Avenue is. Crantock Drive covers Higher Middle Peas field, a meadow and Lower Middle field for pasture. Baslow Drive covers a meadow called Higher Peas field and the arable Lower Peas Field.
Later, according to the book, Long Lane Cheadle remembered, the land of Brookfield Farm was owned by a Manchester businessman called Colonel Young. Although the farm was enclosed, he kept an area of scrub grassland for rough shooting, so it was more like moorland than farmland. It was also another farm that was well known for its cheesemaking in our area.
On the 1901 census Brookfield farm was run by relatives of the Bruckshaw family who owned Outwood Road Farm, where Outwood Primary is now. Farmer Colin Bruckshaw (son of the Bruckshaw family at Outwood Road Farm) aged 44 lived there with his wife Annie, aged 34, along with two sons and two daughters. John Edmund was 4, James Marton was 3, Florence Ethel was 2 and newly born Edith Constance.
Sadly, Colin died sometime in 1907 and so by the 1911 census Annie was a widow. Her two sons were working on the farm. Her sister, Elizabeth Maddocks was assisting the business. She employed a servant as a waggoner on the farm. He was 20 year old John Richardson from Hayfield in Derbyshire. Three more daughters had been born. Annie Evelyn was 9 and Violet Emily was 7. They both attended school. Sarah Elizabeth was 3 and was born in 1908, after her father had died. What sad times these were. The two daughters from the previous census are not on this one. By the 1921 census the family had moved to Outwood Road Farm.
I could not find anyone at Brookfield Farm on this census. However, it seems the farm was up for sale with adverts posted in the local papers. As you can see this area was often called Handforth!
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Fig. 3 Brookfield and Motcombe farm sales
Alderley and Wilmslow Advertiser 11.11.1921
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Fig. 4 Brookfield farm sale
Alderley and Wilmslow Advertiser 10.2.1922
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The farm went up for sale again in 1937 but was withdrawn from sale a month later.
Fig. 5 Brookfield Farm sale 22.4.1937
Stockport County Express
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Fig. 6 Brookfield Farm sale withdrawn 7.5.1937
Stockport Advertiser and Guardian
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The 1939 register had Geoffrey and Mildred Redfern living there. He was a dairy farmer aged 26. She was a health visitor and trained nurse aged 51 and a widow so perhaps his mother?
Now back to the land for site 2 as WW11 broke out. Fields behind Brookfield Farm off Outwood Road and Oak Farm off Finney Lane were requisitioned by the Air Ministry. A Mrs Elizabeth Johnson and her husband owned 6.6 acres “Quite good land it was too, good enough at least for the Air Ministry to take over at the beginning of the war. They paid rent on the land, all £34 a year and after the war in 1958 they actually bought it for £1900. Mr Johnson, who was alive then, felt he had no option but to agree to the sale which was completed in 1959.” I shall return to their story later.
Other sites within the village were also created by the Ministry as RAF Handforth created storage depots for their operation. Huge buildings and hangars were built to house all sorts of spare parts. According to Mr Pollard who worked there in 1943 “everything from an aircraft wing to a nut and bolt. Site 2 stored electrical parts. Site 4 at Bradshaw Hall had aircraft wings and tailplanes. Clay Lane had engines and Ash Lane had radio spares. The living quarters were across Wilmslow Road on Bradshaw Hall with also the messes and barber shop, tailor and boot repairer.”
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“One day, early on in the development of the two stations (RAF Handforth and RAF Wilmslow), two RAF lorries drove into West Avenue where I lived, loaded with WAFFs and the Sergeant in Charge went from house to house begging people to provide billets for them. We ended up with two and my brother and I had to bunk in together to make room for them. Although it was war time, we had some happy times with them and quite often we would have four or five of them visiting for the evening, playing cards or just chatting.”
- Jack Finegan, RAF Wilmslow website, recollections.
As the war progressed, RAF personnel were billeted around the village. There was a points system for allocating homes for them and you could not say no. Although the war was on, it seems socialising with local villagers was the norm. From visits to the pub and cinemas to tea dances. (I direct you to Joan Heinekey’s book, Heald Green in Wartime, as she has many tales to tell from local residents about their RAF house guests.)
To give you an idea of the size of these buildings, these two photos are where Baslow Drive now stands. The only other photos that we hold are of what was left after the war ended. Large concrete structures left to wrack and ruin for the local children to play in, along with huge ponds that were filled with who knows what!!! They were not demolished until the early 1960s and were an adventure playground for many............no health and safety back then........
Figs. 7and 8 MU61
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This was where the flats on Hathaway Close are now.
Fig. 9 MU Site Entrance from Outwood Road
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There is a bit of gate post still there.
The guard house onto the camp would have been here.
Fig. 10 Hathaway Close 2.2.2025
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Fig. 11 MU entrance gate 2.2.2025
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Fig. 13 MU Site off Outwood Rd
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Fig. 12 Maintenance Unit Water Tower
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Fig. 14 From Heald Green in Wartime page 66
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Fig. 15 MU Site
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Fig. 16 MU Site off Outwood Rd
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Huge RAF trucks and lorries would regularly visit the MU sites.
Fig. 17 Queen Mary transporter
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“My father drove the 60 foot trailers with aircraft wings or fuselage sections. The trailer and tractor unit (lorry) were known as Queen Marys because of their length. My dad was based at MU61 Woodford. The RAF flew a vast array of aircraft all requiring parts from airframes to engines. These are the units Frank Robinson will remember struggling to negotiate the tight turns around Cross Road.”
- Phil Jones via messenger 2024
Fig. 18 Matador COE
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Fig. 19 Aerial view from 1945
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Hancock’s Farm
Farms at the time were remembered by the name of the farmer, rather than their official name. Brookfield Farm on the bottom of this photograph was another way onto the MU site for children.
“We moved to Heald Green in 1958. Bridgewater Close opposite Outwood Farm which later became the school. We used to go to Hancock’s farm for milk. You just knocked on the door and went in. He was just sat there and told us to throw the money on the table. I never saw him leave that chair.”
- Edward Metcalf, Facebook 2021
“The RAF MU camp behind the farm got knocked down to build Avon. I went to the farm as a kid. Freddie Hancock used to sell stuff. He was an old fella. He had an orchard with damsons and plums and we used to nick them as kids. When I was there the RAF camp had been demolished so there were no buildings just concrete bases here and there. Where there had been one big building, there were steps leading down to probably something like a parade ground or a car park and it had flooded to make a big pond. We used to play on it with rafts. There were 2/3 shelters we played in that probably had rats too. There were small walls behind grass humps where we played war games. There were natural ponds there too. We used to scoop up frogspawn and take it back when they were frogs and newts. We would set fireworks off there. We played in old cars that had been dumped.”
- Graham Bloxsome, In conversation 2023
“I played on the MU camp behind Hancock’s farm. We used to go to the farm for milk. He was like an old tramp with a sour smell and always looked dirty. He was an eccentric old man. There was more where the scout hut used to be. There were big ponds and air raid shelters and big slabs of concrete. There was another camp off Wilmslow Road, down the side of the offices there, but I didn’t play over there.”
- Lynda Raglan, In conversation 2023
“Hancock’s farm was where Avon Road is now and the farmhouse was set back from the Road (Lydney Ave area). I used to get pears from there, more pears than apples. The RAF camp was a dangerous place. Yet as kids you had no fear, The fire hydrants had holes, 12 feet deep, and were full of frogs and newts. Later on, we played on there with our motorbikes.”
- Steven Hough, In conversation 2021
More recollections of Site 2 ...
“I used to play on the RAF camp at the end of Haddon Road during the sixties. There were old bunkers there that we used to go down into. I was with two young friends there once (three little girls of about 7 or 8) and a man chatted to us and asked us to go back there after tea but not to tell our parents. Luckily one friend did tell her parents and we weren’t ever allowed to go there again. I was cross with her at the time but thank goodness!”
- Tricia Boyd, Facebook 2023
“We were very sad when the diggers moved in. That was our playing area. All the ponds, catching frogspawn. I’d bring them home to Westwood Road and my dad got a big old white bath so we could watch them grow into frogs. I lost my dear tortoise; he escaped into the RAF camp behind our house. Great times, those were the days.”
- Tina Nicholson, Facebook 2021
“Hancock’s farm, where Avon is now, had proper wooden gypsy caravans on it and I would go there to buy a bottle of stera milk. You could follow a path through the farm that would take you onto the RAF camp behind it and eventually it would bring you out through fields near Etchells School. As children we always seemed covered in mud. There were ponds all over and we would have picnics beside them. The MU had big hangars on them. One very cold winter, probably 1963, I wore plastic slippers and went skating on a big pond behind the farm. When I was older, I would leave Etchell’s park and cut across the camp to get home before 10pm. There was all sorts of debris left in these ponds, and I shouldn’t really have gone that way home. In the end my mum found out and she went mad!”
- Christine Kinlin, In conversation 2021
“I lived on Queensway and the house backed onto the MU. A great play area, old buildings, shelters and ponds. No such thing as health and safety.”
- Chris Hall, Facebook 2021
“What a playground site off Outwood Road. Ponds with newts and frogs, having a fire to cook apples, that we somehow magicked from local trees, building bonfires and pinching each other’s wood. Dragging branches down the road for the bonfire.”
- Mike Sadler, Facebook 2025
“What a great life we had, having all these places as our playgrounds!”
- Howard Hunt, Facebook 2021
“I remember very happy memories of the fields behind where we lived on Queensway. It was an old RAF station. We moved to Heald Green in 1963 and as a child it was a wonderful playground with the meadow as well full of mayflowers and all other manner of wildflowers. There was also a large pond full of newts, frogs, frogspawn, toads and salamanders as well!! I remember the gypsies living there (c.1966), can’t remember how long for. Sure I remember an underground shelter. There was also a 1940s car left on the RAF field complete with running boards!! Bonfire nights were brilliant when the whole neighbourhood came together for a big fireworks and bonfire party, complete with food. The fun part as well were the bonfire raiding parties, with rival gangs stealing each other’s firewood. It was a fantastic time and place to grow up as a child, with the most amazing memories.”
- Gillian Hollingworth, Facebook 2025
“Lived opposite the “RAF Camp” on Outwood Road. I remember playing in the old air raid shelters, one by the Outwood Road entrance and the other by the big pond. God only knows what vermin we shared them with. Catching frogs and newts in the ponds and looking for blackberries in the woodland area. Had my first fag in the camp, a Park Drive tipped. 2 or 3 drags and I turned green but I persevered for the next 30 years.”
- Graham Bloxsome, Facebook 2025
Fig. 20 Gypsies on old RAF land
Alderley and Wilmslow Advertiser 11.2.1966
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Memories of Camp B
“The Cottage Café on Wilmslow Road was run by the Buntins. The RAF camp next to it had lots of air raid shelters and I played in them too.”
- Steven Hough, In conversation 2021
“The RAF camp near the Cottage Café on Wilmslow Road had air raid shelters and I played in them. They were dangerous places. My friend fell down a manhole there and really cut his leg badly, we had to try and carry him home. Gypsies moved onto that site and I played with the children on there.”
- Christine Kinlin, In conversation 2021
“I’m thinking where we played was the same side as where Gilbank Motors was, which may now be a lane for the Deaf School or airport parking opposite where Outwood pond was. In our Bolshaw Primary school days we would go down almost a track in memory to the left of Quick’s for Ford. I recall an iron gate like an old farm gate.”
- Kim Orton Mannion, Facebook 2025
I was laughing typing this memory up!!
“That was known locally and not politically correct as “The gyppos”. There was that path on the left of Quicks, and further left was just scrub land but if you carried on up there was a tree line and a massive old air raid shelter, largely filled with debris. There were remains of other buildings as well. So many memories of playing on there, building dens and cooking cheap beefburgers from Kwik Save up the road. Our frying pan was my mate’s mum’s stainless steel nut bowl. Our dens were furnished with leather seating from the Jaguar scrapyard behind Gilbanks I think it was (Outwood House). I remember a load of big tipper lorries being parked and left open and someone had vandalised the interiors. The Deaf school was at the back of that tract of land and had a miniature railway that we found fascinating. Another time in winter it had frozen so my mate Robert Lovell and I decided to walk over a frozen pond. I say pond, more stinking stagnant water. We had a walk about and then decided to test it by jumping on it. The inevitable happened and we fell through into the foetid swampy water. We had been told to avoid icy ponds and decided we would be in trouble. His parents were out and he lived opposite the launderette on Haddon Road. So we washed our clothes in his bath as best we could and dried them over the road. Crisis averted. Nice, dry clothes but a tepid bath with a bit of Timotei shampoo wasn’t enough to remove the pond smell, so we lashed a bit of his dad’s Brut 33 on them. I went home thinking I would avoid alerting my mum to our little mishap. Anyway, I got in and she goes “Mark have you been in that bloody pond again and then tried to cover it up with Brut 33!” ”
- Mark Jackson, Facebook 2025
The Kwiksave referred to was an old RAF picture house where Lakeland now stands.
The businesses run from behind Outwood House used some of the old RAF buildings.
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Fig. 23 Looking into Hunters entrance 27.1.2024
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Fig. 24 Looking at Hunters old RAF entrance 2.2.2025
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Back to site 2 now and the Johnson’s land sale to the Air Ministry that was completed in 1959 for £1900. Less than 12 months after buying this land, the Ministry decided they no longer needed it. All the equipment had already gone up for sale. The deal for Mr Johnson to buy back his land was done in 1960, but the market value of the land was still to be determined. They later offered the land back for £25,000 and a few weeks later that became £35,000!!! This was happening to people across the country. The law stated that any land compulsorily purchased had to be offered back to its original owners when it was no longer required. According to her lawyer the land should have been legally sold by auction, if Mrs Johnson did not exercise her option to buy the land back. The land was sold behind her back to the very council who earlier had refused planning approval for housing, that her brother required to build low cost homes. Cheadle and Gatley council bought the land for £35000 and therefore Mrs Johnson, now a widow, lost her fight. This was now 1965.
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Figs. 25a and 25b MU61 sale
The Scotsman 12.2.1958
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The site stores were already being sold off before the Ministry bought the Johnson land!
Can you imagine having to count everything!
The end of the war should have led to land reverting back to farming. However, land was now more profitable to be developed on. The end of the 1950s and early 1960s saw a population surge in the village and the need was great for new housing estates. This huge site 2, off Outwood Road was left to be a rather dangerous area to play in. The site opposite Outwood Road Farm became council houses for the Manchester Corporation overspill. The site of Wilmslow Road still to this day looks unkempt with cars parked all over. Manholes and shafts can still be found there. Heald Green Motor Club used the area here for driving tests and ability driving in the 1960s and 70s. The top of Cross Road/Outwood Road would eventually become a play area.
Cheadle and Gatley council and the Ratepayers Association sought solutions to the mess that had been left behind. The Ratepayers pressed for action about the dangerous pond in Bradwell Drive. The council were looking to provide provision of old people’s flats in Heald Green once suitable land was made available.
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In 1966 councillors were worried about the gypsies occupying old MU Sites. It was also reported that seven and a half acres of land had been bought by the council to build old people’s flats “the greatest housing need in the district.”
By September 1966 a contractor had been employed to “fill in the dangerous ponds etc on the old MU site making it safe for children.” I wonder what the etc entailed? In the same year the County Council sought permission from the Urban District Council to use a five acre site for a primary school (Bolshaw) but the UDC wanted the land for recreational purposes.
By 1967 and before that, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government had been putting pressure on Cheshire County Council to make available sites for Manchester corporation to build on. This was to be a short term measure to assist them as they had over 70,000 unfit houses. On the assurance from the Ministry that this was just to be a short term help, until a new town could be built and established, it was agreed that Cheshire County Council would build 400 homes. The Outwood Road site had been acquired from the Air Ministry and the proposal was to build mixed dwellings. Mixed as in it would cater for both people on our waiting lists as well as for individual Manchester residents. Mixed also in the sense of different types of dwellings for families and older people. By June 1967, surveys and preparation work was being carried out at the site.
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In December 1967 details were given of what was to be built off Outwood Road and that a tender had been accepted by the housing committee for: 39 two bed houses, 29 three bed houses, 6 four bed houses and 42 one bedroom flats.
It is in June 1968 that the names of Avon Road and Roundhey first appear. During provision for the local schools, it was deemed necessary that an extra 400 places would be needed for these new housing developments.
New names for the Avon Road development were announced in October 1968. They were Hathaway Close, Stratford Square and Arden Court. Also, following an 18 month campaign, Roundhey residents had their rateable value reduced.
By December 1968 the building work was well underway and could be speeded up if more bricklayers could be found. 37 garages had been built, some roofed by now. It had been decided that the original 91 garages would not be built now. Instead, an area off Avon Road and Roundhey would be grassed over and made available as a play area.
In Spring 1970 Crantock Drive and Fistral Avenue were mentioned. Land had been developed by the council as a play area. This would be the open space that linked to the grassed areas for Avon and Roundhey.
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“Peter Burns told me the field behind Avon/Crantock/Baslow etc was due to have houses on it, but proved so difficult to clear of concrete that the builders gifted it to the village and just topped it off as a playing field- you notice it is quite raised.”
- Colin Barnsley, Facebook 2024
Fig. 26 Playing area June 2021
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By Summer 1970 the tree planting scheme for Roundhey had been enhanced to cover Crantock Drive and Fistral Avenue.
It would also be extended to Baslow Drive when it had been completed.
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“I always remember messing about running up and down a plank to the first floor of the unfinished house on Baslow by the passage.”
- Gareth J Bond, Facebook 2021
“Yes, once they started building the houses, they became our new playground. Kept taking the putty from the new windows and climbing up to the higher floors on ladders before they built the stairs.”
- Chris Hall, Facebook 2021
“I remember that very clearly although we were preschool age- there were no stairs. There was a couple of older boys but we were only 4 or 5 years of age and balancing on beams- could have been killed!! Different world back then.”
- Mark Bond, Facebook 2021
With the completion of Baslow Drive the whole MU site number 2 had been developed.
Fig. 27 MU61 Badge
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The insignia in latin reads “plentifully and in time.”
Around our village, even today, there are still signs of the RAF being here. Concrete posts and old propellors were used for boundaries and fences.
“When I knocked down my old garage (Crantock) a few years ago, there were huge round concrete chunks like this to dig up. Really tough to break up even with an electric drill. The photo is an example of many on the drive into Nixon’s farm.”
- Colin Barnsley, Facebook 2021
Fig. 28 concrete stumps on Nixons farm driveway
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“I have come across several of these concrete cylinders around Cheadle Hulme, Bramhall and Hazel Grove. My understanding is that originally, they would be used to block certain roads, fields and long straight fairways on golf courses to prevent any attempt at an airborne invasion during WW2. During the 50s and 60s many surplus wooden propeller blades covered in black rubber could be seen used as fence posts on agricultural land. They have since all rotted and been replaced.”
- Michael Gorman, Facebook 2021
“We still have them at my old MOD workplace which was part of MU61 RAF Handforth. They were used to line roadways and painted white to help vehicles at night because vehicles had the slits in the headlights which didn’t give the best vision.”
- Gareth J Bond, Facebook 2021
The only part of RAF Handforth, that still exists and uses the original buildings, is the Ministry of Defence pay office on Dairy House Lane in Cheadle Hulme.
“I used to live on Drayton Drive and remember seeing a fence made up of aircraft propeller blades acting as a fence post. The fence was at the bottom of the field behind the public hall that our friend Peter Mahler used to manage.”
- Malcolm Wilkinson, Facebook 2021
“I remember where Outwood Road bends at the Cross Road junction there was a children’s playground. Behind that was a field where the boundary was made from propellers lying in hawthorn bushes.”
- Danny McCarthy, Facebook 2021
“I remember propellers used as fencing next to the railway near Heald Green station at the top end of Outwood fields.”
- Graham Sue Thompson, Facebook 2021
“I remember the propeller fence posts around Nixon’s farm all along the field leading to the barn.”
- Colin Wolstenholme, Facebook 2021
“I have it in my mind that as a toddler going to the village from Motcombe Road, we used to go past Daisy Bank Farm. It had aeroplane propeller blades in the fence at the front.”
- Chris Hamlet, Facebook 2024
“I remember the footpath along Bradshaw Hall Lane. The fence there was made with propellers. The field is now football pitches. The path went to Handforth Aerodrome.”
- Jeff Barlow, Facebook 2021
“My next door neighbour had one in their garden at 36 Westwood Road. My grandad who lived in Offerton had a German plane’s altimeter from a shot down plane.”
- Andy Holloway, Facebook 2024
“I remember the fences in the fields between the railway and the Oval were made from propeller blades with barbed wire stapled to them. I’ve always presumed the blades came from the MU.”
- Alastair Mellor, Facebook 2023
“I remember wooden propellers were used to fence off Etchells Primary School from the Etchells park next door. That was from 1969 – 1973. Probably long gone now...”
- Gillian Walsh Camilleri, Facebook 2021
If any of you played on the MU that was requisitioned from Bradshaw Hall farm, site 4, then please have a read of Jean Margaret Rushton’s (nee Bailey) memories of living there at the time. I interviewed her back in 2021. This most amazing 91 year old lady, as bright as a button, who had the most fantastic memories to retell and a commanding voice that I could listen to all day. Indeed, I visited her on a few occasions afterwards. Bailey Place on the Bloor Estate remembers her and her family. Sadly, she died in the summer of 2023 before seeing it fully built. In her words she was “a woman born a generation too early to reach her full potential.”
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The Editor, June 1967, Council building at Bradshaw Hall and Outwood Road, Contact Magazine 5(2), pp.4
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The Editor, December 1967, From Abney Hall Housing Committee, Contact Magazine 5(4), pp.9
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The Editor, June 1968, Educational Provision in Heald Green, Contact Magazine, 2, pp.9
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