St Ives
Note: This map only shows the position of St Ives town within the UK.
St IVES: Civil regional airport
NOTES: During the 1930s Provincial Airways listed a destination at St IVES but is it known where they landed?
It is reckoned to probably be ROSEVIDNEY FARM near St Erth, (see seperate listing), but is this the case? If anybody can kindly offer advice, this will be much appreciated.
It is perhaps hard to envisage today what many 'regional airports' were actually comprised of in those days. In effect just a suitable field with a windsock, possibly with a tent or shack serving as a 'terminal' for passengers to shelter in. Invariably no fuel or even very basic maintenance facilities.
Although the airlines did offer regular services, hence their listing as 'airports', these services were usually seasonal in England. The situation was however often quite different in Scotland, where despite the weather being much more of a challenge as often as not, the services were seen as being much more of an essential link to major towns and cities. Not least for air ambulance flights.
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