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East Fortune Airfield, Technical Area, Parachute Stores 109/27
Parachute Packing Building (20th Century)
Site Name East Fortune Airfield, Technical Area, Parachute Stores 109/27
Classification Parachute Packing Building (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Museum Of Flight
Canmore ID 234211
Site Number NT57NE 72.08
NGR NT 55091 78178
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/234211
- Council East Lothian
- Parish Athelstaneford
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District East Lothian
- Former County East Lothian
NT57NE 72.08 55091 78178
Information transferred from cancelled site NT57NE 199
Situated within and used by the Museum of Flight.
Built by the Air Ministry during World War II, building with clerestory roof for hanging and packing parachutes. Brick rendered in concrete with corrugated asbestos roof.
The building is visible on RAF WW II vertical air photographs (NLA 68, 3041-3049,4041-4049, flown 26 August 1943).
Information from RCAHMS (DE), March 2005
External Reference (29 November 1990)
Air Ministry, circa 1940-45. Small basilica-like; tall single storey with
clerestory shed with lean-to sides for hanging parachutes. Single brick skin, buttressed; rendered in concrete. Boarded door and steel framed small-pane window to flat roofed porch to W end elevation. Corrugated asbestos roof with ventilation flaps at clerestory level. Hooks for hanging parachutes retained in the interior.
Currently used as the Airship Hall of the Museum of flight. Listed as an
essential component of the airfield complex.
Information from Historic Scotland, 29 November 1990
