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Events
of special interest at the airfield over the years |
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Misc's Famous Visitors |
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(below) Von Ribbentrop arriving at Croydon in 1935. |
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The 26th of January 1935. The Duke and Duchess of Kent returning
from their honeymoon in the West Indies. |
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the Maharaja of Mysore, Nalwadi Krishna Raja Wadiyar. At Croydon
before flying on to Berlin with his pilot. 1935 |
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(below) Count Felix Von Luckner (the Sea Devil). The man
who stole out into the North Sea in his three masted clipper
'Seeadler', disguised as a Norwegian lumber vessel and destroyed
a million pounds worth of Allied shipping, arriving at Croydon
with his wife from Berlin on the 9th of September 1935 |
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(above) German Athletics Team. 1935 |
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(above) German football team and the president
of German sport. On arrival in 1935 |
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1936 |
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(below) 1st of January 1936. Lt Gen Sir Charles Bonham-Carter
who has been appointed Governer and Commander In Chief of Malta,
accompanied by Lady Bonham-Carter, are pictured leaving by plane
for France for a weeks holday before embarking for Malta. |
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(above) Tamari Desni arriving at Croydon in November 1936 |
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(above) King Edward VIII arrives in his private plane at
Croydon on the 1st of January 1936. |
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(below) 25th of September 1936. The Duke and Duchess of
Kent arrive at Croydon after a vacation on the Continent. |
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(above and below) 1936. The arrival of the German
gov't representatives for the 'League Of Nations Council', talks. |
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(below) arrival of the Polish and French Ministers for
the 'League of Nations Council' talks 1936. |
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(above) C.W.A. Scott making a speech at Croydon after winning
the Schlesinger Portsmouth to Johannesburg race. Co-pilot Giles
Gutherie is left and Lady Connop Guthrie centre. October 1936. |
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(above) The Mayor of Croydon and Lady Connop Guthrie |
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1937 |
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(above) the Duke and Duchess of Kent arriving
at Croydon in 1937 |
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(above) Constantin Cantacuzino, arriving at Croydon on
20th November 1937. A Romanian Air Ace who flew for the Luftwaffe
in WWII. |
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1938 |
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(above) The British Ambassador to Spain
arriving at Croydon from Paris in 1938. He had been to talks
regarding the 'Spanish Civil War'. |
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(below) Jan Smuts and Eric Geddes |
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(below) Daladier arrival 1938. |
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(above) Adolph Huhnlein German Sports Minister. 1938 |
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(above) Dr Edith Summerskill. 1938 |
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(below) 10th of October 1938. The Lord Mayor of London
Sir Harry Twyford (right) and Major-General Sir Neill Malcom
fly out to Prague, to form a committee for refugees from Germany. |
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1939 |
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(above) Winston Churchill arriving at Croydon back from
Maginot on the 23rd of August 1939 |
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(above) George Sanders arriving |
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(above) John. F.Kennedy and father Joseph
Kennedy leaving for France. |
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1945 |
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1st of June 1945. 12 POW
German Generals arrive at Croydon. |
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1946 |
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(above) the arrival of the Swiss football
team on the 9th of May 1946 for the international 'England-Switzerland'
match. |
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1948 |
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(above)
Rita Hayworth December
1948 |
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1950 |
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M.Da Ladier giving a speech at the Airport in 1950 |
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1951 |
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(above) Humphry Bogart and the stars of the film 'African
Queen', arrive at Croydon. 1951 |
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