Which Aerodrome?
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Flap40's challenge
Thanks Flaps40, I must admit the reason I recognised it so quickly was that I had a slightly later photograph (1935) of the same hangers as a possible challenge.
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Slightly more than a few miles away but not a Miles aircraft. The aircraft company that built this famous aircraft was to move even further north a couple of years after this photograph was taken.
I would say Gravesend, but I can't think of anything built there; certainly it's a housing estate though. Not Brooklands either although the building does bear some resemblance to the old clubhouse which still stands, but it's an industrial estate not housing.
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chevvron. It was indeed Gravesend Airport 
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Opened in 1932, an airfield built near Chalk and operated by Gravesend Aviation Ltd served Gravesend and has a significant place in the history of British aviation. From 1933 to 1936 it was home to Percival Aircraft, building the famous Mew Gull racing aircraft among others, before the company moved to Luton. After 1936 Essex Aero was based on the site, and maintained the airfield's link with racing aeroplanes by preparing the de Havilland DH.88 Comets and Alex Henshaw's Percival Mew Gull that set the record for a flight from England to South Africa.
The airfield site today has become a housing estate called RIVERVIEW PARK and little can be identified of the original use, but Leander Drive and Vigilant Way seem to have been built on the original perimeter track. "CASCADES" Leisure Centre in Thong Lane which is between Vigilant Way and Leander Drive has a plaque which is dedicated to the airmen of WWII which served at Gravesend Airport. The Control Tower from the Airport was located in the grounds
The airfield site today has become a housing estate called RIVERVIEW PARK and little can be identified of the original use, but Leander Drive and Vigilant Way seem to have been built on the original perimeter track. "CASCADES" Leisure Centre in Thong Lane which is between Vigilant Way and Leander Drive has a plaque which is dedicated to the airmen of WWII which served at Gravesend Airport. The Control Tower from the Airport was located in the grounds
