Boldon Airport? North-East Civil Aerodromes, 1929-1958

By Graeme Rendall

But for delay, a less than perfect site and a lack of government cash, Boldon International Airport, located midway between Newcastle and Sunderland, may have become a reality in the mid-1950s. If history had been different, and local authorities had clubbed together to support it, then Teesside may have had its own airport at West Hartlepool, more than a decade before Middleton St. George became a local air terminal.

The North-East had many civil aerodrome plans during the period 1929 to 1958, briefly interrupted by the Second World War. Woolsington Aerodrome was dominant due to its early start, plus dithering, indecision and a lack of financial support for schemes across County Durham. Some schemes were simply pie-in-the-sky, including various "helidromes" suggested for towns such as Tynemouth. The story of how the region's civilian airports were suggested, planned, argued over, funded and defunded, encouraged and denied essential services with which to operate effectively - all of this is covered in this new book.

Readers can ask themselves "what if" some of these aerodrome plans had come to fruition. What would the aviation map of the North-East have looked like today, and how would it have affected their travel plans?

The book is fully illustrated with maps, photos and copies of newspaper headlines from the time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CCZN529H
• ISBN13: 9798854004046
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"