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  • Short Histories
  • Documentary Slideshow
  • Photo Galleries
    • Hawker People 1940s
    • Hawker People 1950s
    • Hawker people 1960s
    • Hawker people 1970s
    • Hawker people 1980s
    • Hawker people 1990s
    • Hawker memorabilia, notices and letters
    • Canbury Park Road Kingston
    • Centenary Festival 2012
    • Plaques
  • Oral History
    • Cyril Herridge
    • Doug Shorey
    • Frank Trigg
    • George Cottrell
    • Gordon Jefferson
    • Harry Webb
    • John Richardson
    • Michael Frain
    • Ralph Hooper
    • Ron Pullen
    • Stella Taylor
  • Film Archive
  • Sopwith Day by Day
    • Up to 1913
    • 1913
    • 1914
    • 1915
    • 1916
    • 1917
    • 1918
    • 1919
    • 1920 – 1923
  • 1909 Kingston Roller Skating Rink behind the Cinem Palace in Canbury Park Road
  • The first aircraft built in the Skating Rink factory - Sopwith Bat Boat
  • The entire Sopwith Aviation Co. workforce in the skating rink in 1914
  • The first volume production order - Sopwith Tabloids in the Skating Rink factory
  • R J Ashfield's first drawing office on the roof of the skating rink extension.
  • Sopwith Schneider floatplanes outside cottages in Canbury Park Road
  • 19th April 1917 King George V and Queen Mary visit the Canbury Park Road factory
  • 19th April 1917 King George V and Queen Mary visit the Canbury Park Road factory
  • 1917 Factory offices on corner of Canbury Park Road and Elm Crescent
  • 1918 Sopwith Dolphin production at Canbury Park Road
  • 1920 ABC motorcycle production by Sopwith Aviation at Canbury Park Road
  • Cinem Palace on Richmond Road with skating rink factory behind (photo via J McCarthy)
  • 1927 Hawker Horsley bombers in Canbury Park road
  • 1925 Hawker Danecock
  • Pre 1934 aerial view of Canbury Park Road
  • 1932ish Hawker Fury production at Canbury Park Road
  • 1935 Prototype Hawker Hurricane build inthe new experimental shop (now Siddeley House)
  • post 1934 doctored aerial view showing new tall experimental building by the railway (with old Bentalls depository erased for clarity)
  • 1939 Hawker Typhoon wing spar descends from component workshop to assembly floor, Experimental Workshop
  • Post war aerial photo of Kingston station and the Hawker Aircraft Co. buildings in Canbury Park Road
  • 1982 Corner of Canbury Park Road and Elm Road
  • 1982 Crown Court developed from old Bentalls' depository/Hawker Aircraft drawing Office from 1935
  • Demolition
  • Aerial view shortly before demolition of main factory.
  • 1935 Experimental workshop now Siddeley House
  • 1917 Canbury Park Road factory main offices now Sopwith House
  • 1927 Hawker Horsely bomber in Elm Road for delivery to Brooklands airfield
  • Aerial view of the factory buildings, including the Skating Rink, old and new Bentalls' depostories
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