[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by rosegrove

my mother said it was dummy airfield with dummy planes and searhlights it was used to divert german planes from manchester airport and hopefully bomb the dummy airport there was still bits there in the late 1940s after the war it was used 1940 till 1942 my mother is 86 and remembers armed guards on routes to the site

It had nowt to do with Manchester Airport. Manchester Airport
back in the 1940's was not worth the bother.
That decoy site was supposed to confuse jerry as to where
Salford and Trafford Park was. Never saw any dummy planes on it, just canvas
and wood structures, which at ground level to us meant nothing. I all ready
mentioned the guards on all the main paths, they wouldn't even let us pick
whimberries. Look at Google Earth and you can pick out a lot of straight lines
like streets, nature doesn't do straight lines.
Retlaw.