Barton
I learned to fly at Barton nearly 45 years ago (on Auster J1s with the legendary Taffy Davies and Charlie Rollo), so I should be terribly sorry to see Barton dissappear and even more sorry to see LAC go to the wall.
For almost all of the succeeding years I have lived in the South, so I am not au fait with the present situation up North. So please forgive me if what I say is something that has been well and truly thrashed out before.
Back in those days there was a small group/club with an Aircoupe that seemed to have obtained permission to share RAF Woodvale with Liverpool and Manchester University Air Squadrons. I seem to remember they had a small building/hangar on the far side of the aerodrome from the air force buildings. In those days apparently Woodvale was operated for the Air Force by Airwork Ltd.
In these days when our government expects to run the armed services on a shoestring, and the RAF is getting smaller and smaller, perhaps the MOD might be interested to earn a few extra pennies by leasing out facilities on the far side of Woodvale aerodrome.