Upper Stoneham Farm
UPPER STONEHAM FARM: Temporary aerodrome
The aerial view was obtained from Google Earth ©. The local area and area views are from my Google Earth © derived database.
Operated by: Sir Alan Cobham's National Aviation Day No.1 Tour
Location: Just E of the A26, just N of the B2192, about 1.5nm NNE of Lewes town centre
Period of operation: 12th August 1933
Landing area: Assuming the field layout hasn't changed since 1933? In many parts of England this is usually the case.
Approx: N/S 330 grass E/W 360 grass (Quite typical of the time)
NOTES: We have Mr Graham Frost, a great friend of this 'Guide', to thank for pointing out this location.
The 1933 No.1 Tour commenced at CENTRAL PARK, Dagenham in Essex on the 14th/15th April 1933. This was barely a month after the Tour of South Africa lasting from November 1932 until February 1933. The No.1 Tour finished at CHERTSEY ROAD, Staines, Middlesex, on the 8th October - having visited around 116 venues. UPPER STONEHAM FARM was the planned 72nd venue.
The No.1 Tour went to Ireland on the 11th September and returned on the 2nd October. The No.2 Tour visited 161 planned venues, making a total of, in the U.K. of course, 277 venues. And, from what I have discovered, they did manage to display at nearly all of them.
Arranging such tours would be quite impossible today of course, but, even so, can we even start to imagine, in those days, just how effecient the administration Cobham set up really was? I doubt it.
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