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  • Homepage
  • 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
  • Mark Bromley paintings, Ambrose Barber's bust of Sir Sydney Camm and Hurricane model
  •  Aircraft models and Martin Alton painting from the Brooklands Museum
  • BAE Systems model Sea Harrier and Mark Bromley painting
  • BAE Systems model Hawk advanced trainer and Mark Bromley painting
  • Bill Downey and Peter Drye recording oral history
  • Prof. John Allen and Bill Downey
  • Martin Alton and Prof. John Allen
  • Martin Alton and his painting Hurricanes over Kingston upon Thames 1945
  • Hawker Fury biplane model from Brookland Museum
  • Reproduction Sopwith Tabloid racing floatplane being built by Steve Green and other volunteers for the Kingston Aviation Heritage Trust
  • Project Manager Fiona Sturley and volunteers lay the performance matting in the Market Place
  • Brooklands volunteers Ken Gillett and Robin Voice deliver Sopwith Camel model to the marquee
  • Ralph Hooper studies the Sopwith built ABC motorcycle
  • Project publicity officer Jane Horsfield organises a photo opportunity
  • Tommy Sopwith and Allan Winn on the Tabloid float
  • There are Hawk and Harrier cockpits behind there somewhere
  • Ralph Hooper who devised the Harrier sits in the BDAC Harrier GR3 cockpit
  • Tommy Sopwith and the Brooklands Museum Sopwith Camel
  • Allan Winn, Director of the Brooklands Museum, with the reproduction Sopwith Tabloid floatplane
  • Tommy Sopwith with a bust of his father Sir Thomas as a young pioneer aviator
  • David Hassard welcomes the distinguished guests to the Kingston Aviation Festival
  • Nicky Hillard (Kingston College, Art and Design tutor) accepts student prizes from Bill Downey
  • Chris Roberts and Ambrose Barber
  • Barry Pegrum, Tommy Sopwith, Les Palmer, Ambrose Barber and Howard Mason (BAE Systems Heritage)
  • The Mayor and distinguished guests
  • Chris Farara and visitor amongst the history panels. Chris wrote most of the words for these panels.
  • Volunteer Mike French and others take time out to enjoy the Mark Bromley paintings
  • Ralph Hooper enjoying the documentary
  • Bentalls store in Kingston (detail from Hurricanes over Kingston 1945 by Martin Alton)
  • Rev. Vernon Lidstone's 1/6th scale Hurricane flying model
  • Bill Downey's audio/visual documentary
  • Reproduction Sopwith Tabloid racing floatplane and Barry Pegrum
  • Peter Drye, Sopwith Camel and Sopwith built ABC motorcycle
  • Young volunteers who helped visitors into the aircraft cockpits
  • Thumbs up for the Hawk cockpit from the Boscombe Down Aviation Collection
  • A special visitor tests the Air Training Corps flight simulator
  • Mayor of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Councillor Mary Heathcote OBE and Deputy Mayor Councillor Barry O'Mahony
  • Sopwith Tabloid model from the Brooklands Museum
  • Brooklands Museum volunteers re-assemble the Sopwith Camel
  • Barry Pegrum, Les Palmer and Ambrose Barber of the Hawker Association and the Kingston Aviation Heritage Trust
  • Ralph Hooper with the Brooklands Museum Sopwith Camel
  • Young visitor enjoys sitting in Dave Webb's Hunter cockpit
  • Hawker Hurricane model from Brooklands Museum
  • Hurricane over Hawker flight sheds at Brookland by Mark Bromley
  • Rev. Vernon Lidstone's Hawker Hurricane flying scale model
  • Ambrose Barber's Sir Sydney Camm bust and Mark Bromley Hawker Hunter painting
  • Model from Brooklands Museum
  • Model Sea Fury from Brooklands Museum
  • Model of BAe Kingston P1216 supersonic STOVL project from Brooklands Museum
  • Boscombe Down Aviation Collection Harrier GR3 cockpit
  • Harrier II Model from Brooklands Museum
  • Mark Bromley painting of AV8B and Goshawk
  • Mark Bromley painting of Hawker Sea Hawk
  • Set of four exhibition panels telling the story of the Sopwith Aviation Company
  • Sopwith Tabloid model from Brooklands Museum
  • Mark Bromley painting of Hawker Sea Fury
  • 1920 ABC motorcycle built by Sopwith Aviation on loan from the Brooklands Museum
  • Brooklands volunteers deliver their Sopwith Camel to the festival marqee
  • Ralph Hooper inspects ABC motorcycle
  • Julian Temple(Brooklands Museum), David Hassard, Jill Lamb (Kingston Museum) and June Sampson (Kingston historian and author)
  • Tommy Sopwith discusses the construction of the Sopwith Camel
  • BAE System Heritage loaned paintings and models
  • BAE System Heritage loaned Hawker Hunter paintings and models
  • Dave Webb's naval Hawker Hunter FA11
  • Queen Anne, Bob Dunn owner of the Hawker Hunter FGA9 cockpit and David Hassard
  • Bob Dunn's Hawker Hunter FGA9 cockpit
  • Bob Dunn's Hawker Hunter FGA9 cockpit
  • Investigating the Hawk cockpit from the Boscombe Down Aviation Collection
  • Dave Webb's naval Hawker Hunter FA11
  • Hawk cockpit from the Boscombe Down Aviation Collection
  • 1922 Trojan two-stroke car built by Leyland Motors in the original aircraft factory at Ham returns to its birthplace
  • The Hawker Hunter cockpits re-emerge from the gateway of the Richmond Road (Ham) factory where they were built in 1955 and 1956
  • The reproduction Sopwith Tabloid racing floatplane returns to the Brooklands Museum to be completed.
  • The Sopwith Camel ready to return to the Brooklands Museum but not before Queen Anne tries wingwalking
  • The Sopwith Camel being dismantled by Brooklands Museum volunteers
  • Tommy Sopwith with the Mayor of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Councillor Mary Heathcote OBE
  • Tommy Sopwith with the reproduction Sopwith Tabloid racing floatplane
  • Tommy Sopwith with Steve Green who is leading the construction of the Sopwith Tabloid racing floatplane
  • Ralph Hooper with the Boscombe Down Aviation Collection Harrier GR3 cockpit
  • Ralph Hooper contemplates entering a Harrier cockpit once again
  • Ralph Hooper who devised the Harrier checks out a GR3 cockpit
  • Tommy Sopwith and the Brooklands Museum Sopwith Camel
  • Tommy Sopwith studies the Sopwith Camel cockpit
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