Tilesford Farm
TILESFORD FARM: Civil aerodrome (Aka TILESFORD AERODROME and, later certainly, PERSHORE AERODROME)
Location: Became part of, in the northwest sector, of RAF PERSHORE, which itself is just NE of Pershore town centre
Period of operation: 1934 to 1939/40
NOTES: It may well have been operated by the Worcestershire Flying School who were based here. It also appears the County Flying School were based here, but I suspect this information is erroneous?
This site was also used twice by Sir Alan Cobham's National Aviation Day display tours. The first visit was on the 30th July 1934, and the second, by his No.2 Tour was on the 24th September 1935.
A MICHAEL T HOLDER GALLERY
I can take no credit for this, except perhaps for asking Mike, a great friend of this 'Guide', to kindly take a look at RAF PERSHORE, for which I had no maps and only Google Earth© pictures.
Note: The second item, the advert, was published in The Tewksbury Register and Agricultural Gazette on the 21st July 1934. The article excerpt is from the Airfield Research Group.
Note: The sixth item, the advert, was published in Flight magazine on the 24th January 1935. The seventh item, the newspaper article, was published in The Tewksbury Register and Agricultural Gazette on the 14th September 1935, as was the eighth item, the advert.
Note: This article, divided into two parts to make it easier to read, was published in The Tewkesbury Register and Agricultural Gazette on the 28th September 1935. The advert was published in Popular Flying magazine in December 1935.
Note: This thirteenth item, was published in the Evesham Standard & West Midland Observer on the 28th September 1935. As was the fifteenth item, published on the 10th September 1938. The last item, the local area view is from my Google Earth © derived database.
ANOTHER NOTE
It appears that the Worcestershire Flying Club, giving their address as Pershore aerodrome, had acquired the de Havilland DH60X Moth G-EBST, first registered on 08.09.27, and had it registered to them from 24.03.38 until 09.07.40. It was then impressed into military service as AX793, and scrapped at St ATHAN in July 1940. One does of course have to wonder at the mind set of the obvious morons employed at that time, who thought, (if they were capable of thinking?), that an already aged de Havilland Moth was of any worthwhile value to the war effort.
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