epw019263 ENGLAND (1927). The Bristol Aeroplane Company Works, Filton, 1927

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Title [EPW019263] The Bristol Aeroplane Company Works, Filton, 1927
Reference EPW019263
Date 1-September-1927
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Place name FILTON
Parish FILTON
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 360083, 179199
Longitude / Latitude -2.5752484185864, 51.509825585004
National Grid Reference ST601792

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Redcliffe Lodge

DaveW
Monday 21st of August 2023 06:49:33 PM
Filton to Avonmouth railway line

AndyB
Wednesday 4th of October 2017 11:59:48 PM
The original Filton Memorial Hall before being demolished to make way for the (now) A5174 'Link Road', a dual carriageway linking Gloucester Road North with Station Road The Memorial Hall was eventually replaced by the much larger Filton Folk Centre in Elm Park.

AndyB
Saturday 8th of August 2015 08:53:51 PM
Bristol Aeroplane Company aircraft factory, before further expansion prior to WW2.

Geoff
Monday 21st of July 2014 03:51:46 PM
These fields became Newleaze Playing Fields post WW2

Geoff
Monday 21st of July 2014 03:49:14 PM
Golf Course Lane

Geoff
Monday 21st of July 2014 03:47:40 PM
Southmead Road, before 30's semi's were built.

Geoff
Monday 21st of July 2014 03:46:57 PM
Charborough Road. On the south side of the street is Charborough Road School.

Geoff
Monday 21st of July 2014 03:44:59 PM
Site of new Filton House office block

Isleworth1961
Friday 14th of June 2013 08:53:22 PM
Now totally refurbished and named Pegasus House - presumably for the winged horse sculpture set in the wall at the north elevation of the building (together with a Bristol Blenheim motif)

AndyB
Saturday 8th of August 2015 08:49:35 PM

Isleworth1961
Friday 14th of June 2013 08:52:36 PM
St.Peter's Parish Church

Isleworth1961
Friday 14th of June 2013 08:51:45 PM
Site of Filton Police Station

Isleworth1961
Friday 14th of June 2013 08:50:49 PM
Site of new St.Andrews Methodist Church

Isleworth1961
Friday 14th of June 2013 08:50:19 PM
Site of Filton Automatic Telephone Exchange, GPO (built 1940)

Isleworth1961
Friday 14th of June 2013 08:49:40 PM
Original Filton Telephone Exchange (National Telephone Company)

Isleworth1961
Friday 14th of June 2013 08:46:57 PM
Three surviving pre-war Belfast Truss Hangars.

calladhor
Thursday 30th of May 2013 04:24:37 PM
Original Bristol Flying school hangars, now the site of the Post office sorting centre.

calladhor
Thursday 30th of May 2013 04:23:49 PM
Opened in 1910, the original 'flying ground' was located near Fairlawn Avenue, next to the Bristol and Colonial Aeroplane Company works, at the top of Filton Hill. In 1915, with the expansion of the aircraft works during World War I, the aerodrome was moved down the hill to its current location. In that year the Royal Flying Corps opened a base on the airfield, access being from Hayes Lane, which led from Gypsy Patch Lane to the hamlet of Charlton. The early buildings at the base were wooden huts, but eventually more permanent structures were erected, including Barnwell Hall.The base later became the Bristol Flying School The nine Belfast truss hangars nearest the main A38 road were demolished to make way for the West Works of the Engine Division of the Bristol Aeroplane Company. The West Works site was cleared in the late 1980s to make way for a Post Office Sorting centre. but the three Belfast truss hangars in the centre of the picture still exist and can be seen from Hayes Way.

calladhor
Thursday 30th of May 2013 04:22:31 PM
Shields Laundry

Isleworth1961
Friday 3rd of August 2012 12:30:17 PM
Later became a satellite of Filton Technical College where the departments of Building Construction, Gas Fitting, Vehicle Maintenance, Photography, and Music, Art & Drama among others were located

AndyB
Saturday 8th of August 2015 08:56:40 PM
Original methodist church, later the library (new St Andrews Methodist Church is at Elm Park). Library is now where Shields Laundry (later Filton College) was.

Isleworth1961
Friday 3rd of August 2012 12:29:49 PM
The Anchor public house

Isleworth1961
Friday 3rd of August 2012 12:26:39 PM
Now the Air Balloon Pub.



The original red brick (Cattybrook Brick?) Anchor building was demolished to make way for this. Apparently at one time it had the longest continuous bar in the Bristol area.

AndyB
Saturday 8th of August 2015 08:47:31 PM
Gypsy Patch Lane

kent
Thursday 26th of July 2012 11:19:01 PM

User Comment Contributions

A splendid picture with the aircraft works in the centre, looking North up the A38 which snakes down Filton Hill to the pass the hangars on the East edge of the airfield. The foremost hangars (one with its doors open) housed the Bristol Aeroplane Company's Flying School and Flight Test Deptartment while the Engine Department was in the hangars behind.



The buildings on the North edge of the airfield were for the RAF's 501 (Auxiliary) Squadron. They seem to be fully finished but the Squadron was not actually formed until 1929.



Today the Aircraft works belong to Airbus and GKN and the fields East of the A38 are covered by the Rolls-Royce works (Bristol Aeroplane merged with R-R in 1966). The Post Office building replaced the Eastern hangars in the 1990s and a new housing development is being built (in 2012) on the "501 site".



Nonetheless, Filton is the only place in the UK still in the aircraft business more than a century after it began.

Patrick Hassell
Tuesday 18th of December 2012 07:14:39 PM
The airfield is to close to air movements this Friday 21st December and an A380 Airbus flew in and out today. Also a recently prepared Spitfire flew out today to its new home in Wiltshire.

Class31
Tuesday 18th of December 2012 07:14:39 PM