Benacre Denes
BENACRE DENES: Temporary flying ground
Operated by: Captain Haydn Sanders
Location: The village of Benacre is about 1nm or so E of the A12, roughly 5.5nm S to SSW of Lowestoft town centre
Period of operation: Early 1910
A MICHAEL T HOLDER GALLERY
The article with a photo and the two photos were published in Flight magazine on the 26th February 1910.
The article, in two parts, was published in the Eastern Daily Press on the 14th February 1910. The area view is from my Google Earth © derived database.
NOTES: This might be as good a place as any, to mention how the world of undertaking a project such as this 'Guide' has changed beyond recognition over the last quarter of a century. Indeed, the original project, started over twenty years ago, was to produce a book. In those days I thought I knew a thing or two about our aviation history - and I was quite correct. I did know a thing or two - but nothing more!
Also, when I set out to research the subject, all the information was gleaned from books, magazine articles, pamphlets and so on. Contacts were by telephone or by letters. The internet being still a new fangled invention. By the time I retired nearly ten years ago, it was obvious that a web-site was the way forward and most communications would be by e-mail. The huge advantage of a web-site being that I could constantly add new material and amend existing listings.
This listing is an excellent example. For a long time I had a listing for BENACRE, with very sparse details in text. When Mike Holder, a great friend of this 'Guide', decided to investigate this location, he sent me, by e-mail, what he had found. Adding this and doing the page layout took me only an hour or so. Needless to say, if a book had been published, and it would have required several large volumes of course, that would have been that. Unless, a series of heavily amended re-prints could be arranged, which I suppose would be highly unlikely.
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