A New Road

On the way back from visiting mother in law at the care home we drove on the recently opened Poynton Relief Road.

The new £53m 3K road is
named after Roy Chadwick, the legendary local aircraft engineer.

Chadwick is most famous for designing the Avro Lancaster, the most heavily used bomber for night raids during the Second World War.

Councillor Craig Browne, deputy leader of Cheshire East Council and chair of the authority’s highways and transport committee, said: “Roy Chadwick is rightly remembered as a true visionary, whose aeronautical creations spanned the eras of flight from early biplanes to jet aircraft.

“In the 75th anniversary year of his death, it is only fitting that this road should be named in his memory – a road so near to the site of his nationally-important creative work and to where, tragically, he died.”

Chadwick died on 23 August 1947, along with three other crew members, in a crash during take-off from Woodford Aerodrome in a prototype Avro Tudor 2 G-AGSU.

A new road and I also went to the tip. A pretty good day.

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