IT is hard to believe it is 13 years since demolition work started on some of the most iconic buildings in Warrington.
To mark Thanksgiving Day today, Thursday, we are taking a look inside one of the former Burtonwood Airbase hangers.
They were a familiar sight alongside the M62 until they were pulled down to make way for Omega.
From 1942 the American GIs became a familiar sight about the town. USAAF Burtonwood’s role in the Second World War was to keep the allied planes flying, especially in the bombing raids leading up to the D Day landings.
In the summer of 1944 this was the largest factory in Europe, assembling bombers from pre-packaged kits from America with more than 18,000 people based there.
The noise of engines from the test beds were heard day and night.
Warrington forged close links with their American wartime allies and the town’s VJ Day celebrations in August 1945 had a special resonance.
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