epw019263 ENGLAND (1927). The Bristol Aeroplane Company Works, Filton, 1927

Redcliffe Lodge

Filton to Avonmouth railway line

The original Filton Memorial Hall before being demolished to make way for the (now) A5174 'Link Road', a dual carriageway linking Gloucester Road North with Station Road The Memorial Hall was eventually replaced by the much larger Filton Folk Centre in Elm Park.

Bristol Aeroplane Company aircraft factory, before further expansion prior to WW2.

These fields became Newleaze Playing Fields post WW2

Golf Course Lane

Southmead Road, before 30's semi's were built.

Charborough Road. On the south side of the street is Charborough Road School.

Site of new Filton House office block

Filton House

St.Peter's Parish Church

Site of Filton Police Station

Site of new St.Andrews Methodist Church

Site of Filton Automatic Telephone Exchange, GPO (built 1940)

Original Filton Telephone Exchange (National Telephone Company)

Three surviving pre-war Belfast Truss Hangars.

Original Bristol Flying school hangars, now the site of the Post office sorting centre.

Opened in 1910, the original 'flying ground' was located near Fairlawn Avenue, next to the Bristol and Colonial Aeroplane Company works, at the top of Filton Hill. In 1915, with the expansion of the aircraft works during World War I, the aerodrome was moved down the hill to its current location. In that year the Royal Flying Corps opened a base on the airfield, access being from Hayes Lane, which led from Gypsy Patch Lane to the hamlet of Charlton. The early buildings at the base were wooden huts, but eventually more permanent structures were erected, including Barnwell Hall.The base later became the Bristol Flying School The nine Belfast truss hangars nearest the main A38 road were demolished to make way for the West Works of the Engine Division of the Bristol Aeroplane Company. The West Works site was cleared in the late 1980s to make way for a Post Office Sorting centre. but the three Belfast truss hangars in the centre of the picture still exist and can be seen from Hayes Way.

Shields Laundry

Original methodist church, later the library (new St Andrews Methodist Church is at Elm Park). Library is now where Shields Laundry (later Filton College) was.

The Anchor public house

Gypsy Patch Lane