Reconstructing the First World War Aerodrome at Croydon / Beddington: Updated
Roger Potten has updated the ambulances and ambulance station on Sketch Up since the last blog post on the ambulance station. The... Read More
Mapping the Aerodrome in the First World War
Roger Potten is one of our highly skilled archive volunteers who has been working on rebuilding the first Croydon Airport (1919-1927) on... Read More
Killed by a propeller: Sad accident to Air Mechanic
Lorraine has found a reference to an air mechanic, not on our Roll of Honour (air men who died at or around... Read More
Air Raid Defences in and around Croydon: Timeline
4 August 1914: Britain declares war on Germany 24 August 1914: Special Constables start guarding “vulnerable points” including water, gas and electricity... Read More
Public Reaction in Croydon to the Zeppelin Raids of October 1915
Norman, one of our volunteers on the Fighting for Air project, discovered a very interesting and important item in the Museum of... Read More
People and Crashes at Beddington
Herbert Montgomery Martin records many crashes. The aerodrome was home to Training Squadrons from May 1916 until the end and beyond of... Read More
Tragedy at Croydon’s Tank Day 1918
On a previous post giving some glimpses of Croydon in 1918 through Herbert Montgomery Martin’s photographs, I mentioned that there was a... Read More