Pugneys
PUGNEYS: Temporary aerodrome (Aka THE PUGNEYS and PUGNEY'S FIELD)
Operated by: Yorkshire Aviation Company
Location: Just SE of the River Calder, roughly 1.25nm SSW of Wakefield city centre
Period of operation: Exact dates unknown, but around August 1920
A MICHAEL T HOLDER GALLERY
Here once again we have Mike Holder, a great friend of this 'Guide', to thank for both discovering this little known location and venue, and providing the following items.
The Article One appeared in the Wakefield Advertiser & Gazette on the 17th August 1920. The Article Two was published in the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer on the 27th August 1920.
The local area view is from my Google Earth© derived database.
NOTES: A trawl around the inter-web failed to find any information about the Yorkshire Aviation Company. Hardly surprising as the inter-web, although often very useful. is not much suited for any in-depth research. The newspaper reports indicate they were operating a three-seater Avro. Without much if any doubt an Avro 504K, possibly a 504N?
After WW1 a great many companies were formed to take advantage of the considerable public enthusiasm for aviation, offering mostly short joy-rides at affordable prices to many. Mainly because these operators had little if any experience of running a business, most of them failed within a year. The income gained in the 'high season' being inadequate to sustain their enterprise through to the next year.
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