If you’d like to attend the UCL/Croydon airport academic symposium on 16th April, from 10:00 till 17:30, you can buy tickets now. Booking closes 11th April. Flying through the 30s: Air travel and interwar Britain is a one day event featuring
Picture Prompt – Wadi Saidna
This picture is of Geoffrey relaxing at the bungalow on the outskirts of the RAF station at Wadi Saidna, a few miles from Khartoum in the Sudan. It was one of those photos that was loose in his archive, but also
A Date with ‘Croydon Calling’
Croydon Calling, the Croydon Airport Society, in association with University College London, will be holding a symposium in April, and we will be putting on a display from Geoffrey’s box – including the White Water Landing books, of course. The
A Camping Romance 1939
Geoffrey took home leave in the summer of 1939, having been in the tropical regions for more than two years. He was 24, experienced in the ways of colonial Africa, and coming home to a sleepy England where Neville Chamberlain was
Flying boats in 1936
It seems strange to think that eighty years ago there weren’t any C class flying boats in existence. I’m hoping to find that some of the air museums might have noticed that this is the anniversary of the first to
Christmas in Nairobi, 1936
“The only thing I remember about my arrival in Nairobi is that I stayed in the Avenue Hotel. I must have arrived in Nairobi between the 20th and 23rd December 1936. It was a day or two later that the