EAW001088 ENGLAND (1946). Padgate Camp (No.3 RAF Depot), Padgate, 1946

Padgate Camp RAF Main Entrance on Station Road

Parkfields Lane

Parkfields House

Gigg Lane Farm

Crab Lane House

Enfield Farm and Villas

The Close This was also built by Roy Cropper and was also the 1st agricultural school in the UK

Fearnhead House This house was built and lived in by Roy Cropper

Cinnamon Brow Farm

103 Cinnamon lane barn This grade 2 listed barn is recorded at being 400 years old

Enfield Hall

Cinnamon Lane

Farmer's Arms

King's Road

King's Road

Boyle Avenue, Harding Avenue, Martin Avenue and Poplars Avenue were all built on these fields.

There was a Firing Range on the right hand side of the picture, not shown on the picture, that the soldiers practiced on every day. This ran parallel to the railway tracks. Delery Drive was on the other side of the railway tacks.

Derek Avenue ran parallel to Granny's Brook

Granny's Brook then travelled along Orford Road to Padgate Brook. There was a Tunnel that went under the railway and the Brook came out the other side of the railway.

Blackbrook Avenue

Park Farm - formerly Blackbrook Farm

No 3 Recruit Training Centre, RAF Padgate

This is what I remember as the Lancashire Education Committe Teacher Training Collage at Padgate. The Theatre and some of the buildings still exist. Beyond the end of Fearnhead Lane (foreground) used to be an army camp and as you look at the photo it was East to Warrington, North to Risley, Culcheth, Leigh and West to Winwick. Also Crab Lane at the top of the photo was moved to allow the M6 to be built.

Blackbrook Lane

Crab Lane

Cinnamon Lane

Fearnhead Lane ?