Nutts Corner and Aldergrove Airports

Nutts Corner and Aldergrove Airports

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Location

Aldergrove Airport, Nutts corner

Year

1962

Date

Production 01/01/1962

Length

02min 35sec

Audio

mute

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcast Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

This footage of the old Nutts Corner airport in Co Antrim shows the complex in a state of decline, although still in use. Its facilities were often criticised at the time and you can see why in this footage with it all looking rather basic and run down. Of course, the development of air travel in the UK was very much an evolutionary affair and what was fit for purpose at one stage when there was a lower level of passengers and flights was no longer fit in the 1960s. The report ends with the exterior of the nearby Aldergrove airport which was to replace Nutts Corner and open the following year. Of course, it also has long since evolved with those new buildings demolished and transformed into Belfast International Airport.

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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