Stores Distribution Park 5 Edgbaston Royal Flying Corps

[winterbrun]

Hello,
Has anyone ever come across 5 SDP Edgbaston (Stores Distribution Park) . It may have been a Royal Flying Corps establishment in 1917.

Thanks
J
John

 

[Pedrocut]

Midland Daily Telegraph, January 1920

 

[brummy-lad]

Struggling to find references to Waterworks Lane perhaps a typo and should be Waterworks Road. Kelly's do not list an RAF Stores but I suspect this would be unlikely during a period of war.

 

[winterbrun]

Thanks so much. This is a great lead. An airman who served with TE Lawrence ( of Arabia) in Aqaba in 1917 was sent 5 SDP which I think is this one Edgbaston. The airman had family in Cotteridge which is perhaps why he was sent here in 1919

 

[brummy-lad]

I suspect this aerial view from 1948 probably shows the original buildings but without further information it's impossible to know for sure.

 

[brummy-lad]

Another earlier image from 1937

 

[winterbrun]

Thanks. I am beginning to think that Waterworks Lane was at the end of Waterworks Road, near the junction with Carlyle Rd. The 5 SDP could be where the Omnibus Works were constructed in the 1920s.

 

[brummy-lad]

Thanks. I am beginning to think that Waterworks Lane was at the end of Waterworks Road, near the junction with Carlyle Rd. The 5 SDP could be where the Omnibus Works were constructed in the 1920s.

I thought that could be the case too, the buildings would seem to be right for that.