EPW041037 ENGLAND (1933). Hamsey Green, formation flying at the National Aviation Day air display, from the north-west, 1933

Does anyone have a complete list of the 1933 venues for the National Aviation Days? I have yet to find one.

I've just been looking ( again ) closer at this picture and there is something I don't understand. We are looking towards Warlingham with Tithe Pit Shaw lane in the right foreground. In fact I can see Ward Lane where my house was built in 1946 directly under G-ABYX's registration number. Which apparently places the Gardiner airfield on the left, almost directly opposite Tithe Pit Shaw Lane over Limpsfield Rd in what is now the Post Office sports Ground ( not the soccer field under the Cierva which now has Meadway estate, but the one to the left ). Which squares with all that I know. However there are no signs of aircraft or spectators there! None! However there are plenty of spectator / vehicle tracks exiting the field adjacent to Tithe Pit shaw lane so it seems that is where the air display was centred. I know that the Good Companions inn on the corner ( now demolished ) was opened in 1939. Or was Gardiner airfield on the opposite side of the road?

Immediately to the left of the autogiro and about 300 yards further on was the site of Gardeners Aerodrome. It consisted of a large field and one tin hanger capable of holding two single engine biplane aircraft.



The airfield was owned by a Mr Gardener who later after WWII became the "Air Correspondent" of the BBC.



During WWII the airfield was used as a glider training school.



Now most of the area under the aircraft in the picture has been built upon.

Eureka We're on a duck shoot tonight. This is the fourth tonight! This is Hamsey Green Farm looking south along Limpsfield Road towards Warlingham where the National Aviation Day event took place on 29th and 30th April 1933.

Warlingham 30th April. The landing field shows 2 days of use with the aircraft leaving for Faringdon I guess as the people seem to be dispersing.

Planes flying: G-ABVY, G-ACCX, Tiger moth number not visible, G-ABYX, G-ABVH and G-ABYH, with rotor plane G-ABUC underneath.