The inaugural flight of the Hillmans Airways service between Romford and Paris. The photograph shows Edward Hillman and the pilot Mr H Wood.1

The flight took place on 1st April 1933 from Maylands Aerodrome (now a golf club). A twice-daily service was to be run in both directions.¹

The Maylands site was not really suitable for such flights, however, and in mid-1934 a move was made to Abridge, north of Romford, where there were better facilities.²

¹ Photograph from my own collection.  Information from a note attached to the back of the photograph.
² Text reproduced from Romford, Collier Row & Gidea Park, plate 63, by permission of the author.

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