Cardington Hangars
For some time its been in the back of my mind to wander along to Cardington Hangars and take a few pics of these, if not actually historic then certainly very interesting, buldings.
So, nice day, bit of spare time, camera handy - and voila!
Cardington Hangars, located at Shortstown, are some 2.5 miles south of Bedford.
Built in the 1920s (No 2 Hangar - as in the pic - was moved to Cardington from Pulham in Norfolk), they were originally intended to house giant airships such as the R101 which crashed and caught fire in France in 1930.
The giant buildings (measuring some 150ft high and 800ft long) have since been put to various uses, one such being the conducting of large scale fire and explosion studies.
More recently Hangar No 2 was leased by Warner Bros to use as a film studio, and was the location of a huge indoor film set - thought to be one of the world’s largest - built for the Batman movie “The Intimidation Game”.
Hangar No 1 is a Grade 2 listed building.
