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Sep 13, 2024 · On a street in 1930s Speke, life in the area is about to begin a fresh chapter as new tenement housing can be seen. Inside the Hayes Engineering plant at Speke, work is underway on the...
- Speke Airport before it was renamed Liverpool John Lennon
Originally called Speke Airport, its old terminal and...
- Speke Airport before it was renamed Liverpool John Lennon
Jun 20, 2014 · Now Speke is an area synonymous with a thriving airport, a thriving industrial and residential community – and a Tudor wood-framed house. In the 1930s Speke was a small village with a population ...
- The Landscape
- Expansion – The Speke Estate and Industry
- Industry
- Later History
- Transport – The Airport
In 1066 Speke formed part of one of Uctred’s manors (along with West Derby and Huyton), and when the Lancashire forest was formed, it became part of the forest fee (Farrer & Brownbill, 1904). Speke occupies an area in the far south of Liverpool. This is flat land with a long river frontage (at the widest point on the Mersey), and was known for year...
In the 20th century Speke was one of several areas of outlying Liverpool which were the focus of post-war reconstruction and expansion (among the others were Knowsley and Skelmersdale). Kirkby, Halewoodand Speke were the three largest out-of-town council estates in the country. Unfortunately, there remained a gap between, one the one hand, the hous...
It was always intended for Speke’s housing and industry to grow hand-in-hand. Industrial estates took advantage of the flat land and growing population from the 1950s onwards. As has been mentioned, post-war development was concentrated on out-of-town areas rather than the inner city. The 1936 Liverpool Corporation Act allowed the city to buy and s...
The Speke Estate was an ambitious undertaking. Its architect hoped to build a self-sufficient town full of people with a range of backgrounds and incomes. Industry would go hand-in-hand with the residential growth, and people would live on the doorstep of their workplace. But the reality was different: house building was too slow for industry’s nee...
1928: Airport site bought from Miss Adelaide Watt 1930-3: airport construction 1933: Speke Airport opened. By WWII it was the second busiest in the UK. Air Force kept control after war meaning it lost out to Manchester in 1950s. 1935-40: Edward Bloomfield’s building built Became RAF Speke until 1961.(Book) Back to top
Dec 10, 2021 · Originally called Speke Airport, its old terminal and Art-Deco style tower built in the 1930s, were a classic throwback to the golden age of air travel. During World War II, the airport was...
Speke Aerodrome started scheduled flights to Manchester and London in 1930, but was not officially inaugurated until 1 July 1933. 100,000 spectators visited the airport and 246 aircraft attended the opening display. One of the first operators to use Speke was Blackpool and West Coast Air Services.
Wider shot of the aerial view of village, showing the footings of Speke Hall Avenue and the Rootes (Dunlops) factory approx 1930's. In some of the fields are holes which some have mistaken for bomb craters but are in fact marl pits which farmers would dig out and use as fertilizer on the land.
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A civil airport, opened in 1930 and used for both civil and military purposes in World War Two. Scheduled flights from Speke began in 1930, there was an official opening ceremony in 1933.
