Chapel Farm
CHAPEL FARM: Temporary aerodrome (AA Approved Landing Ground)
Operated by: Mr T Kelson
Used by: C.D. Barnard Air Tours, later Alan Cobham's National Aviation Day UK Display Tour
Location: Lansdown, just E of the racecourse, approx. 2.5nm NW of Bath city centre
Period of operation: 1930s
A MICHAEL T HOLDER GALLERY
We have Mike Holder, a great friend of this 'Guide', to thank for providing these maps and pictures.
NOTES: Venue for C. D. Barnard Air Tours (13th to 14th May 1931), for the ‘Tour of the UK’. They returned here on the 14th August.
Venue, (5th to 6th June 1932) for Alan Cobham’s National Aviation Day UK Display Tour.
A venue such as this would have been highly regarded by the 'Flying Circus' operators. Presumably costing a fraction of the fee demanded by Bath Racecourse, just across the road to the west? The existing establishment of transport links, needed for race days, could I suppose, also be employed at reasonable cost?
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