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Monday 7 May 2018
Reconstructing the First World War Aerodrome at Croydon / Beddington: Updated
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Roger Potten has updated the ambulances and ambulance station on Sketch Up since the last blog post on the ambulance station. The ambulance ...
Wednesday 2 May 2018
Reconstructing the First World War Aerodrome at Croydon / Beddington: Photographs
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Roger Potten has recreated two of Herbert Montgomery Martins photos from World War One. Compare The five ground crew (211): with ...
Monday 30 April 2018
Bonds not Bombs in Croydon: German War Reparations
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Almost 7 years after the end of the First World War, Croydon Airport played a role in its economic aftermath when an aeroplane landed with ...
Wednesday 25 April 2018
Reconstructing the First World War Aerodrome: Wooden Huts behind C Hanger
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Continuing with our virtual tour of the Croydon Aerodrome in the First World War, below are images of the wooden huts and area behind C Hang...
Monday 23 April 2018
Reconstructing the First World War Aerodrome at Croydon / Beddington in Detail: the ambulance station
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Pilots (and other crew) were very likely to have accidents in training, as we have blogged previously . Fire was one of the most likely and ...
Thursday 19 April 2018
Reconstructing the First World War Aerodrome at Croydon / Beddington in Detail: Bombing Observation Tower
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One of the new training procedures brought in was target practice for pilots to bomb designated locations. In the field these would mainly b...
Monday 16 April 2018
Reconstructing the First World War Aerodrome at Croydon / Beddington in Detail: Hangers, HQ and Camels
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Following on from our previous post on Roger Potten's reconstructions of the aerodrome between 1916-1919, these images illustrate the ha...
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