Walton Hall Park
WALTON HALL PARK: Temporary Landing Ground
Operated by: Sir Alan Cobham (During his Municipal Aerodrome Campaign tour of mainland Great Britain)
Period of operation: 11th and12th June 1929
Location: About 3nm NNE of Liverpool city centre
A MICHAEL T HOLDER GALLERY
Note. The newspaper advert, published in The Liverpool Echo on the 11th June 1929, hadn't caught up with recent events, as it claimed that Sir Alan would be appearing with his de Havilland DH61 'Giant Moth' G-A AEV named 'Youth of Britain'. But he had crashed it just before, and hired the Handley Page W.10 airliner G-EBMR (named City of Pretoria), from Imperial Airways as an alternative. What should interest us today, is just how much experience he had had flying an aircraft of this size and complexity? Very little it would seem. Imperial had provided the seasoned W.10 pilot, Capt. Gordon Olley, to keep an eye on Cobham.
The third picture, a photo, was published in the Daily Mirror, in the 13th June 1929.
Note: The newspaper article was published in The Liverpool Echo on the 12th June.This fabulous air-to-air picture was taken in 1932 during Sir Alan Cobham's National Aviation Day display tour. Here again it was hired from Imperial Airways, and the pilot was Capt. E B Fielden. Although the tour lasted from April to October, it appears that G-EBMR was not needed after the end of August. Clearly Cobham had developed a liking for this airliner as he purchased it from Imperial for his 1933 tours - but, it was a reserve aircraft.
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