Great Rosevidney Farm
GREAT ROSEVIDNEY FARM: Temporary aerodrome, later regional 'airport' (Also known simply as ROSEVIDNEY FARM)
Note: Do these two place names indicate, possibly, that two different fields had been used?
Location: 0.75nm E of the A30, 2.5nm SSW to SW of Hayle town centre, about 4nm NE of Penzance town centre
Period of operation: 1931? Or, 19th August 1932, 30th August 1933, 3rd August 1934 and 26th August 1935
Airline operator: Provincial Airways (From December 1934)
A MICHAEL T HOLDER GALLERY
Note: This advert was published in the Cornishman on the 11th August 1932.
Note: This first advert was published in the Cornish Post and Mining News on the 26th August 1933. The second advert was published in the Cornishman on the 2nd August 1934.
The article was published in the Cornish Post and Mining News on the 31st August 1935. The local area view is from my Google Earth © derived database.
NOTES: Was this the venue for Aviation Tours in August 1931? Probably not?
Displays by: Sir Alan Cobham’s 1932 National Aviation Day UK Display Tour on the 19th August, this being the 117th venue. Commencing at HANWORTH AIR PARK, MIDDLESEX, on the 12th April it terminated at CHINGFORD, ESSEX, on the 16th October. 174 venues were planned to be visited.
Next year used by his 1933 No.1 Tour, it being the 89th venue. This No.1 Tour started at CENTRAL PARK, Dagenham, ESSEX, on the 14th April and finished at CHERTSEY LANE, Staines, MIDDLESEX, on the 8th October. In all 116 venues were scheduled for the No.1 Tour. The No.2 Tour was planned to visit 161 venues with the same starting and finishing dates. The main difference being that the No.1 Tour involved many more two day displays.
104th venue in 1934 for Cobham's UK Tour. This tour was not split into two, unlike the 1933 and 1935 tours. Also commencing at CENTRAL PARK, Dagenham, ESSEX, on the 14th April, this tour terminated back in ESSEX, at MAYLANDS aerodrome, Romford. In total 159 venues were planned to be visited.
Although the 56th venue for Cobham’s 1935 No.1 Tour, this tour was something different. Setting off from TITCHFIELD ROAD, Fareham in HAMPSHIRE on the 12th April some 72 venues were planned to be visited before the tour split into two on the 1st July. The No.1 Tour started at PENSHURST aerodrome in KENT and ended at PHOENICE FARM, Bagdon Hill, Dorking in SURREY on the 29th September, with a total of 88 venues in the schedule. The No.2 Tour was planned to visit 84 venues, making a total of 244 venues for this final enterprise by Cobham's National Aviation Day four year campaign.
PROVINCIAL AIRWAYS
Note: Mike Holder has also unearthed the following articles mainly regarding Provincial Airways operations. When regional airline operations got going during the 1930s, we need to remember that most of the 'airports' were very basic affairs. Usually a grass field with a windsock, a hut as a 'terminal', and often no fuel available let alone a hangar for maintenance. Indeed, the field used here, initially at least, was too small for even a de Havilland DH84 Dragon to take off loaded with seven passengers!
Note: This newspaper article was published in the Western Morning News on the 14th December 1934.
Note: These two short articles were both published, in Flight magazine, on the 13th June 1935.
NOTES: I find it rather interesting, in 2023, that as the threat of recession looms, largely as a result of 'Brexit' of course, the media and press are obsessed with the effect of the cost of living on so many people less well off. I have yet to hear a single report on how this has had very little if any impact on those well off. As is often said, since the earliest times thousands of years ago - history repeats itself.
Reading the articles above is another good indication of how true this is. Bearing in mind that this was taking place during the 'Great Depression'. Perhaps the best example being that when the starving workers from the northeast in 1936, held a march on Westminster, known as the Jarrow March, (5th to 31st October). Just before on the 3rd July saw the first flight of the Short 'C' Class Empire flying boat, then setting a new standard of luxury travel unheard of before in British built aircraft. Airships of course being a seperate subject, suffering their own fate.
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