Flying Through the 30s: A one day symposium on air travel and interwar Britain.
16 April 2016 The Aerodrome Hotel, Croydon Airport London Programme 9:45 – 10:15 Coffee and Registration 10:15 – 10:30 Welcome Address Peter... Read More
Academic Symposium on Croydon Airport in the 1930s
The first academic symposium on Croydon Airport (that we know of anyway) is going to be held on 16 April 2016 at... Read More
Captain Franklyn L. Barnard & Cataloguing
Graham and Malcolm checking the material One of the tasks the Hidden Heritage of Croydon Airport project is doing is getting our... Read More
The Railways Take Off . . .
A post from Mike Homewood from our U3A group about some surprising reminiscences from a friend: A chance remark to an old... Read More
“The fascination and comfort of Silver Wing travel”
Interior of Scylla (a postcard in the collection of Croydon Aiport Society) This slogan is how Imperial Airways chose to advertise their... Read More
Channel Hopping for High Flyers
A blog on the prestige of flying to Paris from Cheryl Bailey, one of our U3A project team: Passengers taking a return flight to... Read More
“The Suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots ” Ezekiel xxvii 28
Image of crash on 9 September 1936 A prescient post from U3A project member Peter Day explores the potential dangers of living... Read More
1950s Tourism in North Africa
There are times when rummaging through an archive you find a document that has contemporary poignancy that has little to do with... Read More
Jean Batten – The Garbo of the Skies. A young Croydon boy’s recollection.
This week we have a post from a member of our University of the Third Age Shared Learning Team – Mike Homewood.Within the books and... Read More
Flying to the Past: Croydon to Persepolis – New Event Announcement
Olley Expedition Photograph,Persepolis (Croydon Airport Society) If any of you enjoyed the blog on Aerial Photographs of the Middle East in the... Read More