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
At the Museum of Croydon
Today a volunteer Ian (our faithful courier) and myself delivered the Croydon Calling pop up exhibition to the Museum of Croydon where... 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
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
The Ten-Minute Check-In!
Booking Hall Olley Airline Services, 1937 (c) Croydon Airport Society Air travel today may be faster, smoother and more accessible than it... 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