Women and Work in the First World War – The War in the Air
The merging of the RFC and the RNAS to form the Royal Air Force (RAF) raised fears about losing their specialised female... Read More
Some of Henry Montgomery Martin’s 1918 Photographs of Croydon
Aerial view of Croydon, 1918 A series of photographs that HCAT has copies of – not the originals – gives a great... Read More
Fighting for Air Volunteer Visit to the Local Studies / Museum of Croydon
In the last post, I detailed how six of us had a busy day last Tuesday as we visited the First World... Read More
Fighting for Air Visit to the Imperial War Museum
Six of our volunteers had a busy day on Tuesday 12 December as we visited the First World War (FWW) Galleries at... Read More
A ring around London: Beddington Aerodrome
Beddington Aerodrome was at first just meant to be an emergency landing field but public pressure after the Zeppelin air raids meant... Read More
Zeppelins over Croydon, 13/14 October 1915
Zeppelins raided London for two nights in September 1915. On the second of these raids, a Zeppelin was seen and heard heading... Read More
The Hague Convention and Aerial Warfare
The ‘calculated savagery of the German advance through Belgium’, as described in Croydon and the Great War, had a significant impact on... Read More
Volunteers needed for assistance with ‘Fighting for Air’ World War One Project Just over one hundred years ago, two small airfields at... Read More
Captain Franklyn Barnard Catalogued (almost)
Photograph of Barnard after he had won the Kings Cup in 1922 Further to our last post on Franklyn Barnard, our intrepid... Read More
National Aircraft Factory No. 1: Part 2
Bill O’Neill continues his piece on tha National Aircraft Factory No. 1 at Croydon here: NAF No1 first of the DC9s nearing... Read More