Bonds not Bombs in Croydon: German War Reparations
Almost 7 years after the end of the First World War, Croydon Airport played a role in its economic aftermath when an... Read More
Reconstructing the First World War Aerodrome: Wooden Huts behind C Hanger
Continuing with our virtual tour of the Croydon Aerodrome in the First World War, below are images of the wooden huts and... 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
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
Capt. L. M. Barlow: The ‘Gadget King’ and Local Hero
Captain Leonard Monteagle Barlow, who lived in Onslow Gardens Wellington was brought to our attention by Lorraine (one of the project volunteers)... Read More
Herbert Montgomery Martin
H M Martin in uniform with cane. The photographs of Croydon by Herbert Montgomery Martin illustrate many of the activities, crashes and... 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
The Gosport System: Robert Smith-Barry and Pilot Training
The Avro Biplane – pictured at Gosport – was Barry-Smith’s preferred aircraft for instruction as it was easy to fly so the pilots... Read More
Gosport Photographs: Keith le Geyt Lansdowne 1897 – 1984
Keith le Gent Lansdowne aged 17 in 1914 from album 3 Historic Croydon Airport Trust is extraordinarily fortunate to have 3 albums... Read More
Pre-War Literature and Attitudes Toward Aerial Bombardment
In the decades preceding the First World War, future war fiction brought the concept of war in the air to the forefront... Read More