Porthmissen Farm
See also CRUGMEER for the WW1 history of this location
PORTHMISSEN FARM: Temporary aerodrome
Operated by: Sir Alan Cobham’s 1933 No.2 Tour of the UK and Cobham’s 1934 UK Tour
Location: Just SW of Crugmeer hamlet, about 1.5nm NW of Padstow town centre
Period of operation: 2nd September 1933, 5th August 1934
A MICHAEL T HOLDER GALLERY
Note: Sir Alan Cobham's itinerary for the four venues in this area was published in the Cornish Guardian on the 24th August 1933.
Note: The newspaper article was published in the Cornish Guardian on the 7th September 1933. The local area view is from my Google Earth © derived database.
NOTES: This venue address changed in one year from PORTHMISSEN FARM (1933) to PORTMISSION FARM (1934) but I expect somebody along the line was guilty of sloppy spelling?
What I find interesting is that both the 1933 No.1 Tour and the No.2 Tour were operating in this region at roughly the same time. Given the sheer amount of planning that went into these tours, how did that come about? Perhaps the two teams involved weren't working together in the planning? The No.1 Tour visited NEWQUAY on the 27th and 28th August, CAMBORNE on the 29th, PENZANCE on the 30th, BODMIN on the 31st and BUDE on the 1st September. Then going to BARNSTAPLE on the 2nd September.
By comparison the No.2 Tour displayed at LAUNCESTON on the 1st September, PADSTOW on the 2nd, FOWEY on the 3rd, before going to CHARD (SOMERSET) on the 4th September. Is it just me? Would it not have made more sense to have just one Tour covering these venues? They pretty much overlapped almost perfectly. But of course there were several other aspects that had to be taken into account, not least what the local dignitaries had planned.
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