Plan of HMS Ringtail, 1944.

Aerial view of Camp 1, HMS Ringtail c1945. (Now the main part of Burscough Industrial Estate).

Aerial view of Camp 1, HMS Ringtail c1945. (Close up)

Aerial view of Camp III - Administration Area, HMS Ringtail, c1945. Lordsgate Lane is to the left.

Aerial view of Camp III - Administration Area, HMS Ringtail, c1945. (Close up).

Aerial view of Camp III - Administration Area, HMS Ringtail, c1945. The Bull and Dog pub and Lordsgate Lane are to the right, with the junction of Liverpool Road South and Pippin Street to the bottom left. The main entrance to the airfield was situated at the bottom of Lordsgate Lane.

Aerial view of Camp III - Administration Area, HMS Ringtail, c1945 (Close up). Some of the buildings in view are the Protected Communication Building (lower left), Fire Station (left of main gate), Electrical Sub Station, Petrol Station, Parachute Packing House, Free Gunner Trainer, Dinghy Store, Photographic Huts, First Aid Station, Main Stores, Ambulance and Crash Tender Station and the Control Tower in the Distance.

Aerial view of Edge Farm Dispersal area, HMS Ringtail, c1945. (This is the opposite side of the Air Station to were the Control Tower stood).

Aerial view of Pippin Street dispersal area, c1945.

Aerial view of Camp II -Living Quarters, HMS Ringtail, c1945. This area is now the sports fields off Abbey Lane.

Aerial view of Camp III - Administration Area, HMS Ringtail, 1946. (Photo courtesy - Pauline Rimmer).