Airfield layout Maps / Plans

[ww2ni]

Guys,
Has anyone seen a Plan / Map of the Layout of the various Airfields which were dotted around Northern Ireland?

I refer to a Plan / Map which would show the Runways and various building types all around the Airfield.

I think it would be very interesting to have a look at what had been on the Sites compared to what remains today.

Has anyone thought of this before and perhaps tried the Public Records Office? If so did you have any success?

Andy

[Dr Draken]

PRONI doesn't hold such material.
I believe the RAF Museum are the people to talk to.


http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/default/archive-collection/site-plans-for-raf-airfields-stations.aspx


Additionally, other records can be found in the National Archives at Kew:


http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/research-guides/raf-op.htm

[ww2ni]

Cracking.
Thanks

[Gizmo]

I only know this webpage, but it usually compare old and new photographs and maps
http://www.forgottenairfields.com/northern-ireland/

[Merlin]

I only know this webpage, but it usually compare old and new photographs and maps
http://www.forgottenairfields.com/northern-ireland/

Very cool 

Looking at the pic of Nutts Corner from 2010 its amazing how much of the runways/taxiways are still recognizable.

I'd no idea that they'd turned 04/22 into the Moira Road.

[Dr Draken]

Good website, and a massive project, but by no means definitive in it's local listings.
Toome, Greencastle and Bishopscourt to name but three that have yet to be added.

[Angry Turnip]

Good website, and a massive project, but by no means definitive in it's local listings.
Toome, Greencastle and Bishopscourt to name but three that have yet to be added.

Agreed,its a great site but needs some updating,especially the NI airfields.

[Gizmo]

Good website, and a massive project, but by no means definitive in it's local listings.
Toome, Greencastle and Bishopscourt to name but three that have yet to be added.

Agreed,its a great site but needs some updating,especially the NI airfields.

It's growing slowly. It's very completed for Belgium and Netherlands. In the Spanish section they say that "it's coming". I don't know if it's a personal website of if they admit contributions.

[ww2ni]

Sad to say I believe Ballyhalbert is rapidly disappearing under a housing development.

Never ceases to amaze me that so many housed are constructed on the Peninsula when the bottom line is that there is only the one road, Portaferry Road to Newtownards, which these people can use to travel up and down to get off the Peninsula.

[J50KPK]

the bottom line is that there is only the one road, Portaferry Road to Newtownards, which these people can use to travel up and down to get off the Peninsula.

Makes me wonder how I manage to get to and from Donaghadee every day ....  Thankfully many hundreds of years ago someone had the bright idea of putting a second (yes, a second) road up the Peninsula.  This time they opted for the Irish Sea side, far away from that pesky Portaferry to Newtownards Road.  They even had the really really clever idea of linking it to places like Bangor, Donaghadee, Millisle, Ballywalter, Ballyhalbert and, oh, Newtownards as well.  That gave "these people" a choice as to where they'd like to go.  Clever really.