Bradmore
Note: This map only gives a rough position within the UK. If anybody can kindly offer advice on this, it will be much appreciated.
BRADMORE: Possibly a temporary flying site? Possibly private airstrip?
NOTES: In their book ‘TOLLERTON an airfield for Nottingham’ the authors have this to say after, in 1928, the RAF decided to requisition HUCKNALL as a bomber station and where the Nottingham Aero Club were then based. “By 11 January 1929 the club had found a new field of forty acres situated between Ruddington and Bradmore owned by W. L. Beeby where they could use a hangar owned by Harold Ashworth adjacent to the field. The site was to be temporary as it had been agreed with Nottingham Corporation that the Club could move to the new aerodrome at Tollerton when it was ready for use.”
This opens another ‘can of worms’. For example, did the hangar belonging to Mr Ashworth relate to the WW1 airfield? If not was it a private flying strip or simply a convenient barn? This raises another aspect of ex-airfield use. As often as not the infrastructure of an aerodrome vacated by the military is often left in place. Quite possibly the cost of dismantling and demolition is the main reason, but perhaps the Air Ministry also realised these facilities could be re-used, an early example of recycling.
“Unfortunately, and despite gaining an Air Ministry certificate for the Bradmore site, the Club was unable to move there but was allowed to extend its stay at Hucknall until Tollerton was available. The reason for the problem at Bradmore has not been ascertained.”
One possible explanation is that some highly competent members of Nottingham Flying Club flew into BRADMORE and decided that a forty acre site simply wasn’t suitable? The original flying area at TOLLERTON was 99 acres, and that was viewed by some invited to use the site as an airport as being inadequate - and these airlines were flying types such as DH Dragons and GA Monospars which could land, and take-off, from the proverbial sixpence.
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