Tag: Royal Flying Corps

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WERE AEROPLANES MADE IN MELTON MOWBRAY?

THE BUTCHER’S LAD, THE BARNSTORMER AND THE GRUBBER. Samuel Summerfield was one of eight siblings born in South Derbyshire in 1894 into a farming family. In 1900 when he was just six years of age, his family re-located a few miles south to the small market town of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire where his father […]

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THE LANDING GROUNDS

Early Aviation around Melton Mowbray The small market town of Melton Mowbray was once an important link in the aerial defence of these Islands, detached as they are from the mainland of Europe, at a time when even the concept of an airfield or aerodrome as we understand it today was but a mere whim in the […]