Southfield Farm
SOUTHFIELD FARM: Temporary aerodrome
Operated by: Berkshire Aviation Co
Location: Just SE of Frome town centre
Period of operation: 31st August to the 10th September 1920
A MICHAEL T HOLDER GALLERY
We have Mike Holder, a great friend of this 'Guide', to thank for the research regarding this venue.
The advert was published in the Somerset Standard on the 20th August 1920.
This second advert, was also published in the Somerset Standard, but this time on the 27th August.
The two part article was published in the Somerset Standard on the 3rd September 1920.
The area view is from my Google Earth © derived database.
NOTES: The Berkshire Aviation Company were in many ways pioneers in taking air displays with joy-rides to where people lived. Other operators in those days tended to favour much more popular venues such as seaside resorts. Often they would position just one aeroplane, sometimes two, at venues such as this, which accounts for them staying several days in order to meet demand.
Their favoured type was the Avro 504, typically the 504K and 504N variants, which had been converted by Avro to accommodate two passengers in the rear cockpit. Later of course, from the early 1930s, the major 'Flying Circus' operators would arrive with a fleet of a dozen or so aircraft, including an airliner or two, and stay for just one day - two at most.
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