Echoes of the Airfield

Black and white photograph of the exterior upper storey of a 1920s aircraft hangar at IWM Duxford, showing three large multi-pane industrial windows set into painted brick bays, with strong diagonal shadows cast by the afternoon sun.

The painted brick bays of Duxford’s historic hangars have watched over a century of aviation history. Built in the 1920s when the airfield was still an active RAF station, these industrial windows once framed the work of engineers and pilots preparing aircraft for flight. Today, that quiet geometry endures — light and shadow falling across the facade just as they always have, indifferent to the decades passing beneath them.

Photographed at IWM Duxford, Cambridgeshire.

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