Rookery Farm
ROOKERY FARM: Temporary aerodrome? (Aka LOWER KINGSWOOD)
Operated by: Sir Alan Cobham’s 1932 National Aviation Day UK Display Tour. Next year the venue for the1933 No.2 Tour.
Venue (17th July) for British Hospitals Air Pageant 1933 Tour of the UK.
Venue for the 1934 Sky Devils Air Circus Tour of the UK.
Visited again by the Cobham UK Tour in 1935 on the 27th July.
Venue for the 1936 British Empire Air Display Tour of the UK
Location: Just SSW of Lower Kingswood on the A217. About inm NW of junction 8 on the M25, approx. 2nm NNW of Reigate town centre
Period of operation: 5th August 1932, 26th April 1933, 17th July 1933, 24th April 1934, 27th June 1935, 25th July 1936
A MICHAEL T HOLDER GALLERY
Note: The two part newspaper article above was published in the Surrey Mirror on the 29th July 1932.
Note: The advert was published in the Surrey Mirror on the 14th June 1935. The newspaper article was also published in the Surrey Mirror, but two years earlier on the 21st April 1933.
Note: The last newspaper article, in two parts, was published in the Surrey Mirror on the 21st July 1933. The local area and area views are from my Google Earth © derived database.
NOTES: Given so much use by visiting ‘Flying Circuses’ it is hard to believe this wasn’t actually a well used permanent aerodrome during this period. Could this, for example be KINGSWOOD KNOLL? (See seperate entry). However, having given this some thought and research, I now believe they were quite seperate sites, although quite closely located.
The problem here is that very often the 'Flying Circus' operators would use a field not only close by, but on occassion across the road from an established airfield. It appears it all depended on the best financial deal available as often as not - and of course civil aerodromes, (and usually military aerodromes too), did not have the ATZs (Aerodrome Traffic Zones) we now have since the years following WW2.
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