Manchester airport development

[DerekF]

I wasn't sure where to post this but I thought here was as good a place as any.
I collect OS maps and for fun I scanned the area around Manchester airport and cropped them so they covered the same area. The maps date from 1920 and how the airport has grown over the years.

1920
EGCC1920 by Derek N.Ferguson, on Flickr

1930
EGCC1930 by Derek N.Ferguson, on Flickr

1947
EGCC1947 by Derek N.Ferguson, on Flickr

1953
EGCC1953 by Derek N.Ferguson, on Flickr

1964
EGCC1964 by Derek N.Ferguson, on Flickr

1971
EGCC1971 by Derek N.Ferguson, on Flickr

1974
EGCC1974 by Derek N.Ferguson, on Flickr

1995
EGCC1995 by Derek N.Ferguson, on Flickr

2002
EGCC2002 by Derek N.Ferguson, on Flickr

I hope they are of interest.

[BobL]

One day 05R might reach Wrexham!

Interesting to see the march of expansion over time...

[Cole]

Interesting.. Where do you get the old maps from ?

I tend to use the ones from National library of Scotland when i want to kill some time looking at how places have developed.

Link for anyone wanting to kill 20 mins... or a couple of days : https://maps.nls.uk/os/6inch-england-and-wales/

[Blackbird]

That is interesting - and I love old maps anyway!

Andy

[hunterxf382]

Always interesting to see things like this. I use Google Earth for the same reason, as being able to shrink time and see how airfields change is something quite fascinating....

[Spiny Norman]

Fascinating. Some of those farms just hanging on!