Well done, it is indeed Leysdown. Not easy unless you've been there. Hardly anything of the original airfield remains, having been used for other purposes from the mid twenties. There is the ghostly outline of an aeroplane shed where the concrete blocks can be made out for Google Earth. My first visit, apart from family holidays in 1960 & 61 was halted by MOD property signs, probably in the early seventies.
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
I wont try and name the airfield but would point out an item of interest.
At the bottom of the picture, just right of the 6 o'clock postion can be seen, on the desk, a pencil holder. This is actually the insert from a tin (can) in which bomb detonators were issued. The cans were hermetically sealed with a tear-off strip around the lid. Inside the can was the item seen on the desk and tube held a Detonator. Being expendable they were often found on office desks being reused as pencil/pen holders.
I haven't seen one for decades and there must have been hundreds of thousands made. But, being tinplate they would soon corrode away in landfill.
Peter ~ If this is the same location my elderly uncle called it ' Legsdun ? ' and told us that it had been used by Brabazon to set a series of altitude records before he obtained his and the UK's first official flying aviators certificate ?
Apparently he also tied a pig placed inside a waste paper basket to the wing of his aircraft to prove that they could fly ?
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