Racecourse Farm
RACECOURSE FARM: Temporary aerodrome (Aka CALLYBARRETT FARM)
Operated by: Sir Alan Cobham’s 1933 No.1 Tour. Plus Jubilee Air Displays 1935 Tour
Location: Between Racecourse Farm and Callybarrett Farm on the A30. In/near Six Chimneys, and about 1.5nm NE of Bodmin town centre
Period of operation: 31st August 1933, 16th August 1935
A MICHAEL T HOLDER GALLERY
Note: The newspaper article was published in the Cornish Guardian on the 31st August 1933.
Note: The Sir Alan Cobham National Aviation Day tour itinerary for this region, from the 27th August to the 3rd September, was published in the Cornish Guardian on the 24th August 1933.
The area view is from my Google Earth © derived database.
NOTES: In 1933 Sir Alan Cobham organised two tours, both starting on the same day, the 14th April. The No.1 Tour started at CENTRAL PARK, Dagenham in ESSEX, and the No.2 Tour began at HOLT FARM, Southend, also in ESSEX. The No.1 Tour was planned to visit 116 venues and this, at Bodmin was the 90th. The No.2 Tour was planned to visit 161 venues.
Very little appears to be known about the Jubilee Air Displays tour in 1935. To date (2023) only twelve venues with dates being identified, although eleven other locations seem known about in the UK. It appears the tour also went to the Republic of Ireland. This tour was organised by Barker and McEwan King who were the only rivals to mount tours as extensive as Sir Alan Cobham's organisation had arranged.
This said, it appears they did start a year later than Cobham, commencing their British Hospitals Air Pagent tour in 1933, (with 150 venues), the Sky Devils Air Circus Tour in 1934, Jubilee Air Displays in 1935, the British Empire Air Display tour in 1936, (111 venues?), and finally the Coronation Air Displays tour in 1937, although it seems that only forty towns were visited, the majority being in the Republic of Ireland.
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