Wood End Farm
WOOD END FARM: Temporary aerodrome (also spelt WOODEND FARM)
Operated by: Sir Alan Cobham's National Aviation Day Tours
Location: Just E of the A5036, (once the A59), just N of the M58, S of Maghull and about 1.5nm N of the Aintree racecourse
Periods of operation: 1933 No.1 Tour 23rd July
1934 No.2 Tour 22nd July
1935 No.1 Tour 11th September
A MICHAEL T HOLDER GALLERY
Here once again we have Mike Holder, a great friend of this 'Guide', to thank for both discovering this location and providing the following items to illustrate the listing. This being especially useful as the venues for these dates have been given by much respected experts as being Aintree racecourse.
ITEMS FROM THE PRESS
Mike Holder spends countless hours for our benefit searching through the archives, and invariably finds the proof needed to confirm the location of flying sites such as this one. In this case to prove that the Cobham NAD Tours did not display on the Aintree racecourse.
Advert One was placed in the Liverpool Evening Express on the 22nd July 1933, and the Notice appeared on the 21st July 1934.
The Advert Two was placed in the Liverpool Daily Post on the 5th September 1935.
The local area view is from my Google Earth© derived database.
NOTES: The 'hey-days' of the Flying Circus commenced in 1931 when the Great Depression really took hold in the UK. Sir Alan Cobham was a late starter organising his first National Aviation Day display Tour in 1932 and from the start these 'swept the board' eclipsing all the competitors in every respect.
In 1932 a total of 174 venues were planned to be visited and in 1933 161 venues. In 1934 a similar amount were planned - 159 venues - and finally in 1935 some 224 venues. Incredibly, given the typicaly volatile nature of our weather, the majority of these venues took place on time which is a great testiment to the skill of the pilots involved.
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