It could be the angle but it didn't look like there was much room for an aborted take off !
You couldn't have seen a Caledonian Tristar to Cyprus or a Britannia B737-200 to Antalya taking off, they were practically in the turning circle when they took off!
The derelict construction lying in the field was the old storage tank for the runway de-icing agent, if my memory serves me right it was something called 'Urea' which was made from pigs s**t. I beleive it is still there after all these years.