Flight Travel Necessities 1930s Style
On longhaul flights today passengers often get ‘amenity kits’, usually containing things like an eye mask, toothbrush and paste, socks, a freshening... 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
Celebrity of the Skies: Captain O. P. Jones
Cheryl Bailey finishes her pieces on the Silver Wing Service with a maverick celebrity pilot: The Silver Wing flights from Croydon to... Read More
How Safe was Flying in the 1930s? Part II
Rapid Development in the 1930s. The graphs showing the number of flights (Machine Flights, left), the number of Passengers and the amount... Read More
Britain’s Busiest Airport
A post by U3A member Peter Day on, well, post: Air Mail with Croydon Airport in background Many people are completely unaware... Read More
Serving a crisp salad – the stewards of the Silver Wing Paris flights
Another post from U3A member Cheryl Bailey on luxury travel to Paris by plane in the 1930s: In the 1930s, responsibility for... Read More
Aerial Photographs of the Middle East in the 1930s
The expedition team from the Oriental Institute in Chicago. Olley expedition photographs, Croydon Airport Society One of the best aspects of working... Read More
Our Archives
This is a new blog from Croydon Airport Society to share stories, pictures and snippets from its rich archive about people, planes... Read More
