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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 57 NW 53
Type of record:Monument
Name:Joyce green aerodrome (site)

Summary

Civil/Military airfield & factory, 1911-39

Grid Reference:TQ 5421 7675
Map Sheet:TQ57NW
Parish:DARTFORD, DARTFORD, KENT

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Site of Joyce Green Aerodrome, est 1911 by Vickers Aircraft Co for the test flying of their aircraft, fabricated on site from components that had been built at the Erith Works. Site developed around the Long Reach Tavern and its jetty. In 1914 the army took over the site and Vickers occupied two hangers at the far end of the airfield site (c TQ 5391 7689). The army constructed additional hangars, workshops and other buildings but vacated the site along with Vickers in 1919. After some brief use by a gliding club in the 1930s the buildings were demolished in 1939, the Long Reach Tavern in the 1950s. (1). Site photographs (2-24).

Location information updated following work by Bexley Young Archaeologists' Club on the Home Front Legacies Project (August 2018).


<1> Not applicable, SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry, Joyce Green and Vickers Ltd' L Pilkinton (in Flight in Kent, Meresborough 1985) (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6440.

<2> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9410.

<3> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9643.

<4> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9677.

<5> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9678.

<6> 1945, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9688.

<7> 1945, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9711.

<8> 1945, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9712.

<9> 1945, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9713.

<10> 1945, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9716.

<11> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9718.

<12> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9764.

<13> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9765.

<14> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9766.

<15> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9770.

<16> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9771.

<17> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9781.

<18> 1944, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10044.

<19> 1944, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10049.

<20> 1944, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10051.

<21> 1944, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10054.

<22> 1988, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10754.

<23> 1988, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10755.

<24> 1988, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10756.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Miscellaneous Material: Not applicable. SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry. Joyce Green and Vickers Ltd' L Pilkinton (in Flight in Kent, Meresborough 1985).
<2>Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 3063. print.
<3>Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 1107. print.
<4>Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 5046. print.
<5>Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 5126. print.
<6>Photograph (Print): 1945. Photograph. 6062. print.
<7>Photograph (Print): 1945. Photograph. 3088. print.
<8>Photograph (Print): 1945. Photograph. 3086. print.
<9>Photograph (Print): 1945. Photograph. 3097. print.
<10>Photograph (Print): 1945. Photograph. 4087. print.
<11>Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 5111. print.
<12>Photograph (Print): 1947. Photograph. 6109. print.
<13>Photograph (Print): 1947. Photograph. 6107. print.
<14>Photograph (Print): 1947. Photograph. 6120. print.
<15>Photograph (Print): 1947. Photograph. 6149. print.
<16>Photograph (Print): 1947. Photograph. 6147. print.
<17>Photograph (Print): 1947. Photograph. 6052. print.
<18>Photograph (Print): 1944. Photograph. 4131. print.
<19>Photograph (Print): 1944. Photograph. 4019. print.
<20>Photograph (Print): 1944. Photograph. 3215. print.
<21>Photograph (Print): 1944. Photograph. 4267. print.
<22>Photograph (Print): 1988. Photograph. TQ5477/1. print.
<23>Photograph (Print): 1988. Photograph. TQ5477/2. print.
<24>Photograph (Print): 1988. Photograph. TQ5477/3. print.

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