Meir, Staffordshire

Meir is a suburb in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire situated between Lightwood and Longton.^[1][2] Meir Park estate extends from Meir uphill to the Meir Heath and Rough Close village hall, located in Meir Heath.

Meir Aerodrome

Meir Aerodrome closed in the early 1970s^[3] and the site has now become the Meir Park housing estate. The earlier parts have mainly aviation-associated street names. The last official flight was on 16 August 1973 when Fred Holdcroft flew a Piper Tri-Pacer carrying a Sentinel journalist to Manchester.^[4] The last unofficial flight "a year or two" later by Eric Clutton was in a home-made folding machine called FRED (Flying Runabout Experimental Design) which the pilot towed home behind his car.^[5][6] The light planes used to be parked on the grass alongside the A50 road, opposite the Airport Garage, which remains. Staffordshire Potteries had a factory (now demolished) beside the aerodrome.

Schools

• Abbey Hill Academy
• Crescent Primary School^{[permanent dead link]}
• Meir Heath Primary School
• Ormiston Meridian Academy
• St Augustine's R.C. Primary School
• Sandon Primary Academy

Transport

Meir is situated along the A50. At the centre sits the junction with the A520. Once a notorious traffic jam site, a tunnel was built in 1997 to take the A50 underneath. The twin tunnels were walled with ceramic panels which were reported to have cost about £1,000 each when they began to come loose through rusting of their attachments after a few years^{[citation needed]}.

Meir was served by a railway station from 1894 to 1966.

Nearest places

• Barlaston
• Blythe Bridge
• Lightwood
• Longton
• Trentham

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