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Initially New Zealand's military pilots were trained at the 2 private flying schools situated at Kohimarama, a seaplane base in Auckland and Sockburn in Christchurch. Once trained these pilots invariably left for England to join the RAF.
The Canterbury Aviation Co.
Choice of Site for the Aerodrome
It may be thought that with the wide area of the Canterbury Plains from which to choose, there should have been no difficulty in selecting a good aerodrome. At least a dozen excellent sites were offered and inspected, but the difficulty of the problem lay in the desire of the Provisional Directors to select the best site possible, and one which could not be eclipsed by future rivals. They looked ahead to the time, after the war, when an aerodrome would be a practical necessity for every city the size of Christchurch, when the postal service would be carried by air, and private owners would want their hangars and aerodrome just as motorists now need a garage. Accessibility to the city would then become a point of primary importance. The site finally selected is under six miles from the centre of the city, and within a few minutes' walk of the electric trams and of a railway station (Sockburn). The site possesses other special advantages. It adjoins the Canterbury Park Trotting ground, which affords good landing ground in case of emergency and is not likely to be built over, and perhaps more important still, it is within reach of electric light and power supply from the Government installation at Lake Coleridge.
In May, 1916, Henry Wigram moved in the Legislative Council:- "That in view of the rapid development of the science of aerial navigation that has taken place in recent years, this Council suggests that the Government should establish a school or schools of flying in preparation for the formation of an aviation corps for purposes of national defence."
The Leader of the Council, the Hon. Sir Francis Bell, speaking on behalf of the Government, advised that the establishment of schools of aviation was not, a practical necessity of the moment, and his colleague (the Minister of Defence), with whom he agreed, thought that it could not then with advantage be undertaken by the Government. The Minister of Defence indicated that while the Government was not prepared to establish a South Island school, it had no objection to its being undertaken by private enterprise.
On August 26, 1916 the first meeting was held of the Provisional Board of the Canterbury Aviation Co. chaired by the Mayor of Christchurch and a large and influential Board of Directors was elected.
Aeroplane Fleet
One of the first acts of the Board of the Canterbury Aviation Co. had been to take over the contract entered into by the Chairman, Henry Wigram, for the purchase of two Cauldron Anzani aeroplanes and to order a third machine of the same make. The first machine to arrive, though not the first ordered, was a 60 h.p. dual-control, and after the first few flights it developed structural weakness in its engine, and had to go into dock for extensive repairs. While these repairs were being carried out, Mr Mackie set to work to build a plane for a 45 h.p. engine, originally imported by Lieut. Scotland, and afterwards purchased by the Company. The pupils all lent a hand at the building, and the new machine was flown by Mr. Hill on July 21. It was christened "White Wings" by the boys, and was a great success, all the pupils for the first few months taking their tickets on it. Mr Mackie came to us from the Auckland School at Kohimarama, where he had already established a reputation as a builder of aeroplanes. Since he has been with us he has built several more planes, which are not only cheaper than the imported models, but considerably lighter and possessing greater stability, so much so in fact, that we are now importing engines only, and building our own planes. Mr Mackie has been equally successful as a maker of propellers.
Flight Instructor
Mr C.M. Hill, who had been chief instructor in the Hall Flying School, at Hendon, England, was appointed as Canterbury Aviation Co. instructor, and arrived in Christchurch on May 3, 1917, about a fortnight after the first machine had been delivered.
WIGRAM AERODROME.
MANAWATU TIMES, VOLUME XLVI, ISSUE 2687, 3 JULY 1923, PAGE 5
WIGRAM AERODROME COMPLIMENT TO PIONEER IN NEW ZEALAND AVIATION.
[Per Press Association.]
CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night.
As a compliment to the Hon. H. F. Wigram, the Government has decided to rename the Sockburn aerodrome the Wigram aerodrome. Mr Wigram, chairman of the Canterbury Aviation Company, made a gift of £10,000 to the Government towards the purchase price of the aerodrome, and its new name is in recognition of this fact, as well as of Mr Wigram's valuable pioneering work in aviation in New Zealand.
The first 100 pilots, by Henry Wigram
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Perhaps the uniformed man in Byron Bird. Perhaps the woman is in black for a funeral? Or maybe it's not black, just my prejudice with black and white.
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North transept, north window, by Powell and Sons, c1919 - Alfred the Great and Hugh Paganis (founder of the Order of St John of Jerusalem). 'A thankoffering from two Red Cross men who served in France and Italy during the Great War' : detail
The top photo of black soldiers dressed as minstrels is disturbing to me today. I hope that they were honestly just having fun.
These photos are among the World War One images from my grandmother's Aunt Lucy and Uncle Byron. Lucy is on the bottom right, on horseback with Byron Bird. They were probably engaged at this point, and married back in Seattle at the end of 1919. Surprisingly she traveled to France to be with him while he served as an officer in a labor battalion of all-black enlisted men.
It's more disturbing to realize that his officer training was at the newly-created Camp Lee, named after Confederate hero Robert E. Lee (and amazing that Fort Lee retains this name today!). He couldn't have known that the men who served under him were not randomly selected, but instead part of a rigged draft system in the south - I believe they were all from Florida. The Army was genuinely afraid of the idea of organized, trained black men with guns. Only a few groups were prepared for combat, and one was given to the French army as reinforcements.
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Detail of the south aisle east window from c1919 by Shrigley & Hunt of Lancaster.
St Peter's at Dunchurch is an impressive red sandstone building dating largely from the 14th & 15th centuries, but rather restored in the 19th. It's impressive west tower changes colour in it's topmost stage and has a richly detailed parapet (sadly the carvings are worn, as is it's otherwise fine cusped west doorway).
The interior of the building is somewhat dark, due both to the colour of the stonework, and the mostly Edwardian stained glass (it's east and west windows are by Bryans, and often mistaken for Kempe's work). It feels like it has been stripped of much of it's antiquity, and this is attested to by the few fragments of the once fine medieval woodwork, stalls and benches all lost by the end of the Georgian period, with only five architectural panels worked into the more recent furniture in the chancel. otherwise the furnishings are all Victorian. There is an intriguing Baroque tablet in the north aisle with it's central inscription flanked by open marble doors, suggesting the entrance to a tomb.
A further ancient feature removed from the church has survived; the east window's fine 14th century geometric tracery remained in place until the late Victorian restoration when it was replaced with the present design. The old tracery was preserved and is now in the entrance hall of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, where thousands of visitors walk past it each year, though likely very few ever notice it!
This church's tower is one of the most familiar anywhere to me, being a regularly seen landmark throughout my childhood, growing up in nearby Rugby. I even climbed to the top of it in 1992 via the scaffolding it was then shrouded in, whilst getting some experience cleaning the west window.
- Top right: University of Washington Mines Building.
- Bottom left: Lucy Bird at 3806 Woodlawn Ave N (her home).
- Bottom right: Perhaps on a Mosquito Fleet steamer?
- Middle: Not sure where these family members are at.
- Top left: A "hybrid" boat under engine power, perhaps in front of Wallingford, just west of current Gas Works Park?
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Back Row: (L-R) Henrietta Hitchcock Hall, George Albert Hitchcock Jr., Thelma Mary Hitchcock
Middle Row: (L-R) Gertrude Adelaide Myers Hitchcock, William Hardy Hitchcock, Charles Myers Hitchcock, George Albert Hitchcock Sr.
Front: Ralph Edgar Hitchcock (aka Papa)
This is St John's United Reformed Church, off St John's Road in Stourbridge, West Midlands.
The church is behind Stourbridge Town Station. And is Grade II listed under it's original name Church of St John the Evangelist.
Church of St John the Evangelist, Dudley
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1682 ST JOHNS ROAD, STOURBRIDGE
Church of St John the
Evangelist
SO 9083 1/51
II
1860-1. Architect G E Street. Sandstone with brick bands and dressings.
Unbroken slate roof. Nave, aisles, short chancel, and porch on north side. No
tower, but a tall fleche (originally leaded) on roof. Plate tracery throughout
nave. Five cusped lancets and "Early French" rose window at west end. Circular
clerestory windows. Chancel has five-light bay tracery east window. Vigorous
stiff leaf capitals to nave arcades. Marble tile reredos. Stone sedilia.
Original choir benches with vigorously carved poppy heads. Original font with
elaborately decorated iron work cover. Glass mainly c1919 and 1927.
Officers of the US Army 547th Engineers Service Battalion in France.
- Top right: On the right are Byron Bird and Lucy Phillips (later Bird). I'm surprised that she followed him to France. I guess she headed over after the armistice.
- Bottom left: Lucy and other women staying with or near the battalion.
- Bottom right: Dog and goat face off.
- Left middle: Two English officers?
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Photo taken by Property Appraiser's office c1965; 1107 Duval St.; built c1919; Tract 11, Sqr 5, Pt Lot 3, Sub 3
- Top left, top middle, bottom left: Stacks of wood that the US Army 547th Engineers Service Battalion have collected to keep the American Expeditionary Force warm.
- Top right, bottom right: The engine says "U. S. A." on the side. I'm no train expert but a quick browse makes me wonder if it is an Alco 2-6-2T?
- Middle: French cat and dog.
- Bottom middle: French goats
- Middle left: The camp in snow.
- Middle right: The battalion tests the weight limits of their truck.
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quarry 1 mile out of Neerim Greenwood collection, via Frank Palmos journalist (collected by Graeme Butler for Buln Buln Shire history, 1970s)
A distinctly British looking tank engine photographed somewhere in India around 1919 or 1920.
Possibly a Vulcan Foundry 0-6-2 CT ?
Digital ID: 1206652. Sergt. Henry Johnson, of Albany N.Y., the outstanding hero; Single-handed he routed 36 Huns, killing 4 of them and wounding the remainder; Sergt. Johnson of the 369th Colored Infantry (old 15th of N.Y.), was the first man in his regiment to win the French War Cross.. [c1919]
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Cinderella, from a book of Germany fairytales c. 1919. Courtesy Wikimedia/Creative Commons
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Four officers of the US Army 547th Engineers Service Battalion -- one of them Byron Bird from Seattle -- and their women. Maybe the other three are wives, but Lucy Phillips (bottom left photo) did not marry Byron until the end of 1919, after they returned to Seattle.
Was it common for American women to join their loved ones in Europe after Germany surrendered in World War One?
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A collection of portraits of Byron Bird.
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Detail of the south aisle east window from c1919 by Shrigley & Hunt of Lancaster.
St Peter's at Dunchurch is an impressive red sandstone building dating largely from the 14th & 15th centuries, but rather restored in the 19th. It's impressive west tower changes colour in it's topmost stage and has a richly detailed parapet (sadly the carvings are worn, as is it's otherwise fine cusped west doorway).
The interior of the building is somewhat dark, due both to the colour of the stonework, and the mostly Edwardian stained glass (it's east and west windows are by Bryans, and often mistaken for Kempe's work). It feels like it has been stripped of much of it's antiquity, and this is attested to by the few fragments of the once fine medieval woodwork, stalls and benches all lost by the end of the Georgian period, with only five architectural panels worked into the more recent furniture in the chancel. otherwise the furnishings are all Victorian. There is an intriguing Baroque tablet in the north aisle with it's central inscription flanked by open marble doors, suggesting the entrance to a tomb.
A further ancient feature removed from the church has survived; the east window's fine 14th century geometric tracery remained in place until the late Victorian restoration when it was replaced with the present design. The old tracery was preserved and is now in the entrance hall of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, where thousands of visitors walk past it each year, though likely very few ever notice it!
This church's tower is one of the most familiar anywhere to me, being a regularly seen landmark throughout my childhood, growing up in nearby Rugby. I even climbed to the top of it in 1992 via the scaffolding it was then shrouded in, whilst getting some experience cleaning the west window.
Chapelfield Gardens, pictured here c1918, was opened as a public park in 1880 by the mayor, Harry Bullard (of the famous Norwich brewery). The pagoda was erected here at that time, but had actually been built four years earlier by Barnard, Bishop & Barnard of Norwich for the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition after which it seems to have gone on a bit of a world tour, being shown in Paris and Buenos Aires believe it or not!
The pagoda was apparently damaged during the WW2 air raids and, rather than repair this beautiful building, the council decided to rip it down in 1949. It was sold for scrap for £98.
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd in 1919 and written by E. L. King, this book provides 'a set of accurate illustrations of the general appearance of the ships of the British Navy from which they may be easily recognised and is furnish(ed) in a handy form for reference particulars of their armament' .
I acquired this many years ago at a Jumble Sale (remember those?) in Bristol. I never paid much attention to the pencilled signature of ownership and scribbled notes inside but have recently done some research. It was bought by a Royal Navy cadet, William Ernest Canning Lowndes (1909-1981) in one assumes the year he joined HMS Royal Oak. He retired as a Lieutenant Commander in the mid 1950s.
The Imperial War Museum has his double breasted (by Gieves) Number 5 Dress jacket in their archive. He served on many ships including HMS Belfast from July 1944 until early 1946. His nick name was 'Loopy' for reasons unknown (A Midshipman's War: A Young Man in the Mediterranean Naval War 1941-1943 by Frank Wade)
Loopy Lowndes was born in Bristol and married Agatha A Higham in 1936 and had at least one child.
Just a curiosity and not much to do with photography!
East window of the chancel at Gedling, consisting of three lancets and a quatrefoil light above. The glass appears to be a fine late work by Henry Holiday c1919 (or could possibly be by Holiday's follower William Glasby). Thus far I can find no documentary confirmation but the bold style of drawing speaks for itself.
All Hallows at Gedling (immediately east of Nottingham) is a grand 13th/14th century building with a very tall north west steeple.
The interior is spacious and has several features of interest, including a strange 'flattened' effigy of a priest in the chancel, and a fragment of medieval sculpture in the north aisle.
There is some good glass in the east window that appears to be a late work of Henry Holiday, whilst the recent glass at the corresponding end of the church makes a more contemporary statement.
The church is normally open only on Wednesdays.
Lucy Phillips became Lucy Bird in November, which I suspect was still a month or two off. She is, left-to-right, top to bottom: on a railroad bridge, feeding deer, on a stump, fixing her shoe, with a baby (probably my grandmother's older brother Ken Duff) and obviously not amused.
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TITLE: "The doctor"
CALL NUMBER: SSF - Physicians [item] [P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-54106 (b&w film copy neg.)
No known restrictions on publication.
SUMMARY: Doctor and nurse alongside child in crib.
MEDIUM: 1 photographic print.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: c1919 June 9.
NOTES:
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Photo by James Wallace Pondelicek, Chicago.
Copyright not renewed.
This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
Caption card tracings: Children; Occupations--Doctors; Shelf.
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Troops of the US Army 547th Engineers Service Battalion.
These photos seem to be out of order in the album -- perhaps copies were received from a friend later?
Top right and bottom left three show officers of the labor battalion including Byron Bird on horseback. In the bottom right corner and right middle photos, African American enlisted men in the battalion put on a performance.
So who are the men with the instruments? I have no idea, because the 547th is hardly mentioned in history books (even those focused on black men in World War One). Search for official abbreviations like "547 ENGR SVC BN" or "547TH SVC BATTALION" and you'll find records of gravestones, which is about all that's left. I have a secret hope that I'll discover that one of them was later a jazz great.
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South chancel window designed by J.Brown for J.Powell's & Sons c1919.
East Bridgeford's church of St Peter was revealed to me after a slog up a hill, looked promising with some lively heads and gargoyles outside.
Not hugely exciting inside, but there are a couple of monuments, an Elizabethan family wall monument and a barely recognisable crusader effigy in the north aisle, and an early 17th century font of a type commonly found in these types (Pevsner calls it the 'Southwell type').
This church is normally kept open.
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd in 1919 and written by E. L. King, this book provides 'a set of accurate illustrations of the general appearance of the ships of the British Navy from which they may be easily recognised and is furnish(ed) in a handy form for reference particulars of their armament' .
I acquired this many years ago at a Jumble Sale (remember those?) in Bristol. I never paid much attention to the pencilled signature of ownership and scribbled notes inside but have recently done some research. It was bought by a Royal Navy cadet, William Ernest Canning Lowndes (1909-1981) in one assumes the year he joined HMS Royal Oak. He retired as a Lieutenant Commander in the mid 1950s.
The Imperial War Museum has his double breasted (by Gieves) Number 5 Dress jacket in their archive. He served on many ships including HMS Belfast from July 1944 until early 1946. His nick name was 'Loopy' for reasons unknown (A Midshipman's War: A Young Man in the Mediterranean Naval War 1941-1943 by Frank Wade)
Loopy Lowndes was born in Bristol and married Agatha A Higham in 1936 and had at least one child.
Just a curiosity and not much to do with photography!
Noojee RS Goods yard Greenwood collection, via Frank Palmos journalist (collected by Graeme Butler for Buln Buln Shire history, 1970s)
Byron Bird (bottom middle left; on the left in the top right, bottom right, and bottom middle right photos; and I think on the right in the bottom left photo) with other officers of the US Army 547th Engineers Service Battalion with the American Expeditionary Force in France.
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Collection Name: RG005 SOS Publications Vanishing Missouri Collection. Click here to view the entire collection on Missouri Digital Heritage.
Photographer/Studio: unknown; submitted by Dr. Thomas Keen (Keytesville, MO)
Description: Several cars are parked in front of City Hotel on Main Street, Noel, Missouri.
Coverage: United States - Missouri - McDonald County - Noel
Date: c1919
Rights: public domain
Credit: Courtesy of Missouri State Archives
Image Number: RG005_Pubs_VanMOI_10_13N.tif
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Standing above the quiet township of Carcoar is the former Carcoar railway station on the now-closed Blayney to Demondrille railway line.
The railway line to Carcoar was completed and opened in 1888. The Great Western Railway had reached Blayney 12 years earlier, in 1876, and by 1888 Blayney had developed as an important rail centre while Carcoar’s growth had slowed.
By c1919 the railway yard at Carcoar included an engine dock, loop siding, goods siding and shed, stock siding and a stockyard. Services to Carcoar were suspended in December 1987 but the station building remains a prominent landmark above the historic town.
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Photographer/Studio: Unknown; submitted by Dr. Thomas Keen (Keytesville, MO)
Description: Three young women sit on a log in their bathing suits, presumably on the Elk River. The caption reads, "Come On The Water Is Fine."
Coverage: United States - Missouri - McDonald County - Noel
Date: c1919
Rights: Permission granted
Credit: Courtesy of Missouri State Archives
Image Number: RG005_Pubs_VanMOI_10_13V.tif
Institution: Missouri State Archives
Standing above the quiet township of Carcoar is the former Carcoar railway station on the now-closed Blayney to Demondrille railway line.
The railway line to Carcoar was completed and opened in 1888. The Great Western Railway had reached Blayney 12 years earlier, in 1876, and by 1888 Blayney had developed as an important rail centre while Carcoar’s growth had slowed.
By c1919 the railway yard at Carcoar included an engine dock, loop siding, goods siding and shed, stock siding and a stockyard. Services to Carcoar were suspended in December 1987 but the station building remains a prominent landmark above the historic town.
Taken: 16/12/2019
Information Source: NSW Office of Environment & Heritage
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I will soon discern if this is a wedding or Halloween party.
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Faded but interesting view of Waikiki Beach back in the real olden days. Aside from the Castle Mansion there was a remarkable absence of buildings along the Diamond Head waterfront. The Waikiki Memorial Natatorium wouldn’t go up for another eight years. Vintage sepia tone real photo postcard postmarked Honolulu Dec 30, 1919.
Photo details
- 1891 Peacock/Moana Pier with people visible in the end pavilion, center (demolished 1930)
- c1890 Liliuokalani Pier still up, behind the Moana Pier
- 1910s Dean’s-by-the-sea restaurant, right of Liliuokalalni Pier
- 1899 James B. Castle mansion (became Waikiki Elks Club 1922) Kainalu on the water, far right
- Future site of the 1927 Waikiki Natatorium, left of Kainalu
- Diamond Head Crater in the distance
Bernard (1896 - 1972) was born in Winster.
Here he is photographed by H. Bateson, Photographer, Chesterfield, c1919. The photographer's imprint is embossed at bottom right. On Bernard's right lapel he displays his Silver War Badge.
This image is reproduced by courtesy of Ken Stinson.
Bottom right is the Ballard Locks. Bottom middle is probably Byron Bird and Lucy Phillips (soon to be Bird) kissing on the beach (just before they were wed).
I believe the other photos are members of Byron's extended family.
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