A view of the Imperial Airways Africa service from the ground
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
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
“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
For December, I thought I’d pick one of the pictures that give an idea of Geoffrey’s social life. He talks most about his social life when he was at Lindi, then in Tanganyika, now Tanzania (not Kenya, which is often mistaken
This is a picture of Empire flying boat G-AEUC, Corinna, at the Rejaf landing area, Juba. Since independence (July 9th, 2011), Juba is now capital of South Sudan. It’s one of my early scans, at the actual size of the
Now that the book is out in all formats, we may have some interesting promotions to announce,but otherwise the site would be very quiet. I thought a regular feature where I talk about a picture from the book, or one