Bentham Works, Gloucestershire March 2013

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Bentham Works was the original site of the Gloster Aircraft Company. Yes, it was deliberately abbreviated because international customers claimed that the name "Gloucestershire" was too difficult to spell :)
Bentham Works was where many of the UK's early fighter jets were prototyped and tested. GAC used the site from 1940 to 1963, since when the buildings have changed hands a few times up until 1998. Since that time the buildings have remained empty.
Visted on a very cold day with below freezing temperatures....

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Don't think you would get away with this today? :)
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nice pics BUT, it wasnt the "original site" for GAC,which first started production in Cheltenham in 1917, the Bentham site which was a subsiduary of the main factory, then sited at Hucclecote/ Brockworth, wasnt built until 1941 and was used only for light manufacturing of parts and drawing offices and as such it was never used for testing Aircraft, but yes, nice pics..
 

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