{"id":9,"date":"2005-10-10T17:56:58","date_gmt":"2005-10-10T17:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/9"},"modified":"2014-04-11T18:36:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T17:36:49","slug":"filton-airfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/9","title":{"rendered":"Filton Airfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some early photographs that a friend let me scan. They show the airfield before and during WWII. The first is very early, before any building on the East side of the road to Gloucester, and includes the hangers near Charlton village. The next two are a bit later, when the Bristol Flying School were there, and show the &ldquo;new&rdquo; administration building over the road. The final one, provided by another friend, is an air reconaissance photograph, possibly German, taken on 5 Dec 1944.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/filton1.jpg\"><img src='http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/thumb-filton1.jpg' alt='Filton Airfield - very early' \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/filton2.jpg\"><img src='http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/thumb-filton2.jpg' alt='Filton West Works from the air' \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/filton3.jpg\"><img src='http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/thumb-filton3.jpg' alt='Bristol Flying School' \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/filton4.jpg\"><img src='http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/thumb-filton4.jpg' alt='Filton Airfield - war time' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some early photographs that a friend let me scan. They show the airfield before and during WWII. The first is very early, before any building on the East side of the road to Gloucester, and includes the hangers near Charlton village. The next two are a bit later, when the Bristol Flying School [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1789,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/1789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}