Captain CrispDec 7, 20205 minSqn Ldr Edwin Rowland Moon Southampton’s aviation pioneer and war heroA real Southampton ‘local’, Edwin Rowland Moon was born 8th June 1886 in Cranbury Avenue, Southampton. His father, also Edwin, was a...
Captain CrispNov 20, 20204 minThe Balloon Goes Up!Many people living on Hampshire’s coast will still remember the proliferation of barrage balloons that flew both on the coast itself, and...
Captain CrispNov 13, 20203 minSouthampton's Mystery Nazi BomberDuring the late summer of 1940, Cunliffe-Owen at Eastleigh [Southampton] Airport were busily repairing Hurricanes and Spitfires which had...
Captain CrispNov 10, 20205 minHampshire's Space RocketsThe ‘flights of fantasy’ stories of Jules Verne, H G Wells and other early science fiction writers fired the imaginations of many a young...