Meir, Staffordshire

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Meir
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The A520 leading north, across the roundabout at Meir
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Meir
Location within Staffordshire
OS grid reference SJ927427
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Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Stoke-on-Trent
Postcode district ST3
Dialling code 01782
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52°58′40″N2°06′18″W / 52.9779°N 2.1051°W / 52.9779; -2.1051

Meir is a suburb in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire situated between Lightwood and Longton. [1] [2] Meir Park estate extends from Meir uphill to the Meir Heath and Rough Close village hall, located in Meir Heath.

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Meir Aerodrome

Meir Aerodrome closed in the early 1970s [3] and the site has now become the Meir Park housing estate. The earlier parts have mainly aviation-associated street names. The last official flight was on 16 August 1973 when Fred Holdcroft flew a Piper Tri-Pacer carrying a Sentinel journalist to Manchester. [4] The last unofficial flight "a year or two" later by Eric Clutton was in a home-made folding machine called FRED (Flying Runabout Experimental Design) which the pilot towed home behind his car. [5] [6] The light planes used to be parked on the grass alongside the A50 road, opposite the Airport Garage, which remains. Staffordshire Potteries had a factory (now demolished) beside the aerodrome.

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Transport

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Entrance to the tunnel under the roundabout

Meir is situated along the A50. At the centre sits the junction with the A520. Once a notorious traffic jam site, a tunnel was built in 1997 to take the A50 underneath. The twin tunnels were walled with ceramic panels which were reported to have cost about £1,000 each when they began to come loose through rusting of their attachments after a few years[ citation needed ].

Meir was served by a railway station from 1894 to 1966.

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References

  1. ↑ Cartlidge, Nicholas Jon (1996). A Meir Half Century. Photographs and news both church and secular from the years 1889 to 1939 covering the Meir and its near neighbours. Leek: Churnet Valley Books. ISBN   1-897949-15-4.
  2. ↑ Cartlidge, Nicholas (2004). Meir Today, Gone Tomorrow. An affectionate portrait from within living memory. Leek: Churnet Valley Books. ISBN   1-904546-22-6.
  3. ↑ Lycett-Smith, Roger (1998). Airfield Focus 34: Stoke on Trent (Meir). Peterborough: GMS Enterprises. ISBN   1-870384-68-7.
  4. ↑ Holdcroft, Geoff (9 May 2006). "My father made last flight from Meir". The Sentinel.
  5. ↑ Cartlidge, Nicholas (15 May 2006). "FRED deserves flight accolade". The Sentinel.
  6. ↑ Clutton, Eric (2003). An Aeroplane called FRED. Tullahoma, Tennessee.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)


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