Croydon Airport
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Croydon Airport was the United Kingdom's main international airport during the interwar period. It opened in 1920, located near Croydon, then part of Surrey, using a temporary terminal, hangars and of
Croydon Airport former terminal building geograph 3044446
Area around Croydon Airport as it was in the 1920s or 1930s
Aerial view of Croydon Airport in 1925
Unsuccessful forced deportation of Jewish refugees at Croydon Airport, 30 March 1939
Imperial Airways
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Imperial Airways was an early British commercial long-range airline, operating from 1924 to 1939 and principally serving the British Empire routes to South Africa, India, Australia and the Far East, i
Croydon Airport
…first airport terminal and the world's first airport hotel (the Gate Lodge, now the Aerodrome Hotel). It was home to Britain's first national airline, Imperial Airways, founded through a government sponsored four-airline merger in 1924. During the Second World War the airport was named RAF Croydon as its role changed…
de Havilland Albatross "Frobisher" class. The Speedbird trademark, was designed in 1932
Handley Page W.8b inherited from Handley Page Transport when Imperial Airways was formed
Argosy Class "City of Glasgow"
A 1936 advertisement