Community Centre, Perton

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Date:1st of January 1979 - 31st of December 1979 (c.)

Description:Perton Community Centre under construction during 1979 on what was to become Church Road. Once completed, it replaced the old Control Tower which had been used as a stopgap community centre since the autumn of 1977.

Perton Airfield was constructed in 1940 as a Royal Air Force Relief Landing Ground. Later during the Second World War the Princess Irene Brigade of the Dutch Army trained here. In 1947 RAF Perton was given to the Agricultural Land Commission with the Dutch camp becoming a refuge camp for Poles, Latvians and Lithuanians until 1950 when it was converted to housing and occupied until 1962. From 1972 a huge new housing estate was built on the airfield site, now with a population of around 12,000.

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Donor ref:Perton_026 (234/40323)

Source: Mrs Margaret Philpott

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