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Description: | 1st October 1927.
Photograph taken at Yorkshire Aeroplane Club with an aircraft in the background. The Lord Mayor, Alderman Hugh Lupton (seen wearing a light coat, right of centre) and Lady Mayoress Ella Lupton, (second from the right) attend a pageant. Left of centre is Alderman, Sir George Martin standing beside Mrs Dorothy Una Ratcliffe, the wife of Lord Brotherton's nephew, Charles Frederick Ratcliffe. The Yorkshire Aeroplane Club, established in 1909 as the Yorkshire Light Aeroplane Club claims to be the first of its kind in the country. From 1926 its headquarters were based at the aerodrome at Sherburn-in-Elmet. It was not until 1929 that it was agreed between representatives of Yeadon Urban District Council, Bradford City COuncil and Leeds City Council to develop the site on Yeadon Moor as Yeadon Aerodrome. Interestingly, during 1926 until 1930 the writer Nevil Shute was secretary of the Yorkshire Aeroplane Club at Sherburn-in-Elmet. (Source: www.nevilshute.org - The Nevil Shute Norway Foundation). In 1929, in his capacity as Secretary, he hired Henry (Harry) Vernon Worrall as Club Manager and Chief Flying Instructor. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Lord Mayor Yorkshire Aeroplane Club Lady Mayoress | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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