The Quest for England - A Walk To The Airport
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Today I am taking a short stroll to Shoreham Airport from close to Shoreham Bridge, across the recreation grounds and adjacent to the river Adur.
Founded in 1910, Shoreham Airport is the oldest airport in the UK and the oldest purpose-built commercial airport in the world. It is now owned by Brighton City Airport Ltd (BCAL). The 1930s Art Deco terminal building designed by R Stavers Hessell Tiltman is listed grade II*.
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Excellent film. The path near the Shoreham - Worthing road looks new so Bella and I will have to explore it ASAP as it looked lovely. We use to attend the Jazz Breakfast Club at Shoreham airport which was always great fun with a local musician Herbie Flowers. I make a point of smiling and saying hello to people as I pass them whilst out walking our dog, but likewise often receive a blank look, which during this lockdown seems so sad as many people, especially the elderly, are suffering severe loneliness. I will persevere and hopefully spread some happiness! 😆😉😆
It seems some people are frightened to speak.
There was a famous American preacher called Dr Norman Peale, who wrote a book ‘The Power of Positive Thinking’, which sold millions of copies. We need to promote his positive attitude to help us cope with this global pandemic. Whilst in New York a few months ago Helen and I visited his beautiful church. He helped Americans cope with living through the Great Depression and 2nd world war. He was awarded a medal by the President for his work improving the nations mental health! 🥳
I remember Herbie Flowers when he played bass with Sky. Followed them avidly for a while
Saw them live in Brighton
Another fine look at England's green and pleasant (and quiet) land...
Thanks so much.
I love that little Elder copse. It's the only woody area I can reach on foot with buggy during lockdown 💜💚🌳💚
And well worth a walk through, Julia.
Hi Richard, I was an AA Patrol man and was detailed to a breakdown of a cast members car during the filming of Poirot and was given a tour of the set and costume lorries etc. I then spent the next year watching every episode until finally viewing the one at the airport, small world
It is a small world!
Lovely video as always Richard, I'm really liking all these mini walks your doing around your area, i'm learning new facts about your area every video.I liked the bridge you went under. Keep them coming they are great. P.s ed loud's soup video was not my kitchen lol
I didn't think it was in your kitchen :) So pleased you enjoy the walks.
Another great video. Thank you Richard
Thanks so much, Ed.
You do a great public service with these walks, stopping us all going nuts. I wish l had areas like this where l live with such beautiful views.
Thanks for the kind words.
@@RichardVobes it's very true Richard. You put in so much hard work.
I visited the the airport’s cafe but the museum was closed. We were lucky to have gone on such a wonderful day.
Lovely place for a visit.
What a beautiful art deco airport building, thank you so much for this one Richard😁😁
Enjoy all your walks . So relaxing to watch .
Thank you Brian.
Thank you for the nice walk Richard!
Thanks so much for watching.
Thank you Richard your videos are really interessant your way to film in your different journeys are also immersive, it's give the feeling to travel in spite of the bad situation for everyone thank you.
So pleased you enjoy them. Thank you.
Tidal flood plains are beautiful areas. I grew up around Mobile Bay along the Gulf Coast in Alabama, and there are beautiful tidal flood plains and swampy bayous down there.
Love seeing the mud flats.
Very beautiful.
Lovely Art Deco, building. When they are looked after they look very grand. We have quite a few in Saltdean. Most notably the Saltdean Lido & Grand Ocean, which used to be a Butlins.
thanks for the walk. Airport has grown. Went to a airshow there in the early 60's good times stay safe
Like everywhere. It has all sprawled.
This made me "home" sick. We had to cut short a visit to my old home area of Chichester last month. But we shall be back when possible. In the meantime I shall keep watching your wonderful videos. Thanks Richard!
You are a star - Thanks for watching.
Have to go there richard looks a nice to visit and see the planes .thanks richard
The airport was made to look like london city airport for The Crown.
They still had the college students there when I went to the air show in 2015. Met Eric "Winkle" Brown too!
thank you Richard - enjoyed that :)
Nice video, I once got a plane ride from shoram Airport, I was 8 or so. I will always remember that. Well done
Beautiful building 👌
I do like the Art Deco architecture. About the only 20th century stuff I do like. :)
Shoreham Airport was also used in the escape from France scene in the 2006 film The Da Vinci Code. It was supposed to be Le Bourget airport.
Lovely video Richard. I don’t know if you’ve been inside the terminal building but it’s nicely done out with a cafe/bar and a nice outside seating area. I’ve spent many a time sat watching the planes. You’re right about the little museum but it’s been moved to the other side of the car park, which is also worth a visit. Thanks Richard.👍🏻
Yes, I have been in there, but only a couple of times.
Fascinating Richard, what a lovely building.......I don't think that was a searchlight though..(?)
Another great video. Thanks Richard. You really are so much more entertaining than so much of the drivel on mainstream tv. I was going to say you're 'wasted' but you're not at all as we are all able to enjoy your offerings anyway. Maybe one day there'll be a bigger opening for you..? Who knows? In the meantime try to sort out your condos from your condors!!! We all do it so don't worry. I remember the time when I believed alopecia was a late flowering perennial!!!
Thank you fo your very kind words. :)
Another great video. Me and my dad found an abandoned airport in fuertaventura that looked very similar and the old runway actually crossed the road with gates to stop the traffic. Maybe that's partly why they built the new one? I went on Google maps to try to find it and it's still there but it looks like a roundabout and an industrial estate have been built over some of it. The old barriers to stop the traffic have gone
Fab little walk Rich, there used to be a museum the river side that had all ww memribilia and a few planes outside. If memory serves me, Proirot was filmed there once of twice. Jen
One of the reason in New Zealand we stopped calling it Social distancing so people still keep talking even if it a stranger bald man with a camera.
Good move. Simple calling it 'keeping your distance' would be better than the idiotic term social distancing.
I hate the terms 'Social distancing & lockdown' - I wonder who made them up ?
Great scenery and fascinating airport - was the Poirot episode - Death in the Clouds?
I couldn't tell you the episode now I am afraid, but very propably.
Yes, I definitely has to be Death in the Clouds
@@claire76leach Just watched it. Was he the policeman on the plane's stairs? Or just one of the men running around. The man on the stairs was named Nick Mercer.
You can go into cafe and sit and watch the comings and goings while drinking tea and eating cake! But since the aircrash you can't help thinking..... 😔
I was there at the air show that fateful day, a memory I will never ever forget!
A very interesting and varied walk . Love the Art Deco airport building, they don't build like that anymore unfortunately. I remember that Poirot episode very well but didn't know it was filmed at Shoreham.
What is the episode name. I would like to see it.
Croydon would have been far noisier perhaps
After the lockdown I think you can safely say that you will have years of material to video within 10 miles or less of where you live! Thanks for sharing your walk, it’s nice to have been able to join you in this virtual world.
We call those kind of houses "Condo's", short for Condominiums. A clumsy word I think, hence the abbreviation.
Condo(s) (short for Condominium. Condor is a huge bird!😆 They are part of the vulture family & the largest flying birds in the world.🦅) Loved the nature areas. Very pretty. Don't know why it is they always have to put all those commercial buildings & airports near them though (just like Portland, Oregon). Really interesting history about that airport though; & about your your personal ties to it w/ past filming endeavors!😁👍
Btw...I too have found it sad when I have had to go out that alot of people won't say "hi" back anymore either.
Condor was also the name of the German WW2 long distance maritime patrol aircraft used to attack allied shipping in the convoys to/from North America. As a former pilot of a light aircraft, I remember Shoreham was notorious for its inflated landing fees and fuel prices. Was it also pretentious enough to try to promote itself as LONDON Shoreham airport at one point?
There's nowt so queer as folk!
Thanks for the correction.
Another great walk, used to play around airport 60 years ago. The drains into the flats by the river spread all over the airport fringe .Google earth shows them Used to hold lots of Roach and Rudd some quite large. On the railway about where the control tower is there used to be a wooden halt called bungalow town used by people who lived down on coast towards the fort.
Thanks for all the extra information, Bob!
The sports pavilion a few days ago, Shoreham Airport Terminal Building today . . . next stop the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill? All pioneering designs from the 1930s, if I am not mistaken . . .
Ah yes indeed. Very lucky to still have them. :)
What a gorgeous day again. There’s an airline starting up that wants to fly to Alderney from Shoreham - whether that would happen now, who knows?
Golly! Yes, a splendid weather day! Thanks, Matthew.
Would you believe, I ducked a couple of times when you were walking through the woods.
1984! 🤣 That's how weird this all feels.. No talking! 😑
A magnificent building. I wonder why airport buildings are often painted white? Perhaps to make them more visible from the air.
That is a good question and I believe you must be right.
I thought it was an ash tree in the wood.
ooh maybe it was.
Lol the B66 was a jet powered airplane.
Cool, thanks.
Hi Richard, Is the West Sussex Police helicopter still based there?
I would have thought so, because I cannot think where else it would be.
The tree was an Aspen.
No an Aspen tree has white bark w/ dark vertical lines through it (much like a Silver Birch does). If you look up photos of mature Elder trees bark, I think Richard may have had it right.
I must look it up.
Could be goat (pussy) or grey willow which are native to that kind of mixed woodland. Were the leaves oval did you notice?
I think the tree with diamond scarred bark is a White Poplar .
Looks similar in this link: treesplanet.blogspot.com/2014/01/populus-alba-white-poplar-abele.html#.XpfPNMhKjPo. Enjoyed our walk, keep it up !
Ah yes, that must be it!
hi could you not put a map on during your film so we could all see where you are going
I do put a three word location at the start usually. Sometimes I forget.
So when was the recent air show crash?
22nd August 2015, a former military aircraft (a Hawker Hunter) crashed (onto the A27) during a display at the Shoreham Airshow at Shoreham Airport, England, killing 11 people and injuring 16 others. It was the deadliest air show accident in the United Kingdom since the 1952 Farnborough Airshow crash, which killed 31 people. (Thanks wikipedia I couldn't remember the year!)
Eerily it was all men who died. RIP
Cave Weta, I was there that fateful day and have some harrowing photos that have never seen the light of day!
condo 'con-dough'
condominium
Thanks.