The Project, originally for two years from 2012, continues to research,
record, share and celebrate the achievements of Kingston’s aircraft
industry from 1912 to 1992.
. There were no exhibitions this year but a significant one is
planned for early September next year at the YMCA Hawker Centre
focussed on the history of the Richmond Road factory, as it will be 100
years since it was built and 25 years since it was closed. Hawker
Association Members are invited to help. Please contact David Hassard
on 0208 5462715.
A diary of the Sopwith Aviation Company continues to be researched and is published as an e-mailed newsletter week-by-week as it happened one hundred years ago. To receive this sign up on the home page of the Project website www.kingstonaviation.org where back issues are also accumulating. Just click on ‘100 years ago’. At the September Hawker Association meeting members brought along photographs and many were scanned to add to the photo galleries on the Project website.
The 23 outreach talks this year were attended by well over 800 people from groups including luncheon Clubs; the U3A; a Dementia Centre; Local, Family and Industrial History Societies; Kingston University; the National Physical Laboratory; the RAeS Weybridge Branch and The Western Front Association.