Crowds of people on the beach at Eastbourne, watching Mr Fowler in his water plane prior to take-off
- Date:
- Aug 1913
- Location:
- Eastbourne, East Sussex
- Reference:
- OP09800
- Type:
- Photograph (Postcard - Photographic)
Frederick B Fowler established the Eastbourne School of Flying in 1911 at an airfield on Willingdon Levels near Eastbourne. The airfield was operated by the Eastbourne Aviation Company, who owned the plane shown in this photograph.
This is part of the Series: RBO01/40 Early Photographic Print Collection: East Sussex; within the Collection: RBO01 Early Photographic Print Collection
Source: Historic England Archive
Photographer: Vieler, R W
Air Transport, People
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