Looking for info WW2 Airfields in Morecambe

[trevnhil]

From Memory, the one on Westgate corner certainly seems to be the older building.

Trev..

[mpprh]

Memory plays tricks !

I think you may be right. The building goes Back a long way - maps.google.com/maps?q=morecambe&ie=UTF8&hl=en&hq=&hnear=Morecambe,+United+Kingdom&ll=54.062218,-2.845223&spn=0.001533,0.003449&t=k&z=18 . Meeco did employ quite a few people locally.

There was also a Cash & Carry nearby.

Peter

[trevnhil]

Nov 5, 2010 13:59:20 GMT mpprh said:

Memory plays tricks !

I think you may be right. The building goes Back a long way - maps.google.com/maps?q=morecambe&ie=UTF8&hl=en&hq=&hnear=Morecambe,+United+Kingdom&ll=54.062218,-2.845223&spn=0.001533,0.003449&t=k&z=18 . Meeco did employ quite a few people locally.

There was also a Cash & Carry nearby.
Peter

AHAAAA..... Well I can certainly tell you about the 'nearby cash and carry'

It was called Anchor cash and carry and a lot of the Hotels and Guest houses used it. I know this as we had a guest house at Number one Clarendon road, and wee sometimes got things from there.

The other reason that I know about it is that I have worked there. But it was then a Ships chandlers run by Altham's before they moved to Heysham.
The building was, and still is next door to Do it All.

Small world...... Trev..

[walbag]

i started work at meeco in 1964 as a paint sprayer,they were taken over by hawker siddely and they manufactured electrical switch gear,the big building at the front was the offices the canteen was on the top floor,the drawing office on the ground floor,the building over the road from the present cafe was the despatch department,if i remember correctly there was about a hundred people working there,after 2 years i was transferred to the machine shop and stayed there till i was made redundant,after the news broke that the firm was shutting there was staggered reduncies which lasted about 12 months,what is now whitegate didnt exist then,it was just a track,however there was old railway lines which linked up the 2 big red buildings,part of the old munitions factory,the sheet metal shop of meeco was at the back,and i remember the building at the junction of whitegate was a cotton weaving shed,i was very happy at meeco it was a good place to work

[trevnhil]

Well if you were happy at your work, you can't ask for a lot more that. I too used to work in that area as I started off as an apprentice joiner at Hustlers, which was a very large firm indeed. But just like Meeco it died a death and I found myself out of work at 16. A couple of us trailed around lots of firms in Morecambe and Lancaster and I eventually restarted my apprenticeship in Bare village.

Happy days. Trev..