C.W.A.Scott's air pageant at Addington 1933

I understand that Scott held an air pageant on Addington airfield in the early part of 1933.
Do any fellow researchers have a info relating to what planes he flew or general notes about his shows.
Many thanks in advance for your help.

Hi Tony, I take it you have most likely checked out the website afleetingpeace.org - afleetingpeace.org/index.php/business-pl...-the-aerial-circuses.
I can't tell you anything about the Addington display but thought you might like to read a report from my local newspaper re. a display at Auchterarder, Perthshire in 1936, particularly as it names some of the pilots -

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I think you may be right Tony but I haven't got anything definitive. There are are a series of photos on 'www.britainfromabove.org.uk which show a series of aircraft in 1933 over nearby Warlingham that may have been connected with the 'Henderson School Of Flying' based at Addington, but it may be the case that this was a fly-in to the Gardner airstrip at Hamsey Green. Warlingham. Picture EPW04103 shows 7 aircraft in loose formation over Hamsey Green:- : G-ABVY, G-ACCX, Tiger moth number not visible, G-ABYX, G-ABVH and G-ABYH, with rotor plane G-ABUC ( Cierva C.19 IV ) underneath. Would loveto know more about this myself - I am from New Addington and now live within shouting distance of Hamsey Green.

Does anyone know what the four-bay hooped structure at 5 o'clock position is?

Further research definitively pins the aircraft down to Sir Alan Cobham's Flying Circus who had a two-day scheduled fly-in to Hamsey Green 28th 29th May(?) 1933. Looking at the 'Structure' at 5 o'clock Peter I think this is temporary canvas fencing as per the perimeter and probably carried a legend on the front directing traffic to spectator areas. Which is the interesting bit because "Gardiners Airfield' at Hamsey Green is supposedly located on the other ( east ) of Limpsfield road and certainly wasn't big enough to accommodate a number of aircraft and spectators. So the probability is that this was a larger temporary airstrip for the circus and / or Gardiners airfield wasn't open yet. It apparently opened in 1933 but I have no specific date.

Ah, I see now that it is not an overhead structure but, as you say, a hessian or canvas screen fence with vertical supports. No wonder I failed my photographic interpreter exam!

Thanks Terence.