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 public opinion in
Fighting for Air: Visit to RAF Museum, Colindale
On Saturday (18 November), some of the Fighting for Air team of volunteers went to the other side of London to visit the RAF Museum
Aerodrome not Airport!
Strictly speaking this blog will not be about Croydon Airport for the next 10 months or so. We’ll be sharing research from our Heritage Lottery
Volunteers needed for assistance with ‘Fighting for Air’ World War One Project Just over one hundred years ago, two small airfields at the edge of
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 Skinner (Croydon Airport
The Tragedy of Airship R101
On 5 October 1930, the Airship R101 left Britain and crushed in Northern France. Forty-six passengers and crew on board burnt to death, including Sir
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 up wipe and
Olley Air Services and Geoffrey Keating
Captain Gordon P. Olley seated at his desk The photograph to the right was taken by Geoffrey Keating, staff photographer for The Daily Sketch, in
Academic Symposium on Croydon Airport in the 1930s
The first academic symposium on Croydon Airport (that we know of anyway) is going to be held on 16 April 2016 at the original Aerodrome
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 it will be
Visit the Soviet Union 1937
Croydon Airport Society’s archives often throws up surprises and sometimes ones that have very little to do with Croydon Airport itself. I certainly was not
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 volunteers Graham and
Captain Raymond Hinchliffe and Seances
One of the pilots’ log books that Croydon Airport Society has in its collection has a strange final entry. The log book is a copy
Halloween at Croydon Airport
We are open for Museums at Night tonight 6-9pm (last admission 8.30pm) and here is a ghost story I shall tell to wet your appetite: A former
Captain Franklyn L. Barnard & Cataloguing
Graham and Malcolm checking the material One of the tasks the Hidden Heritage of Croydon Airport project is doing is getting our archives in better
