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Manor Park lane.
At the beginning of WW1 the strip of waste ground to the north, between this road and the railway line, had been earmarked for housing but not yet built on.
In 1916 this area was leased by Whitehead Aircraft and used as the site of a large extension to their aeroplane factory where they built Maurice Farman MFII trainers and Sopwith 'Pup' fighters - or 'Whitehead Fighting Scouts' as Mr Whitehead preferred to describe them.
The temporary factory buildings were demolished after the war and the land reverted to housing.
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