Rawcliffe Manor
RAWCLIFFE MANOR: Temporary aerodrome
Operated by: British Hospitals Air Pageant (Organised by Barker & McEwen King)
Location: Roughly 1.5nm NW of York city centre
Period of operation: 27th May 1933
A MICHAEL T HOLDER GALLERY
Note: The newspaper article was published in the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer on the 29th May 1933. The local area and area views are from my Google Earth © derived database.
NOTES: This location was, without much if any doubt, subsumed within the northwest part of the later RAF YORK airfield, also known before, it seems, as RAF CLIFTON and RAF RAWCLIFFE. But, also without much doubt, outside of the limits of the York Municipal Aerodrome which opened in July 1936. Later to be expanded in WW2.
The 1933 British Hospitals Air Pageant tour commenced at LUTON on the 1st April 1933 and ended at WOOLWICH in south east London on the 8th October. The tour was planned to visit 150 venues ranging as far afield as Cornwall in the south west, the Midlands and the north of England and as far north in Scotland as ABERDEEN, but barely touching Wales. This was the 43rd venue during that tour.
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