Steve Clarke (left) with Steve Parrish at the


Brooklands Motorcycle Show (Peter Wilcox).


years were consigned to history 100 years before. To mark this occasion, along with other mile- stones, including Vote 100 and the RAF at 100, we will be holding a special afternoon starting at 4.00pm. We will look at life in Surrey, especially Brooklands and Weybridge, on Armistice Day 1918. We will have guests from the RAF Museum Hendon, Surrey Historical Society and our own Museum curators for an afternoon of reflection,


including World War One poetry readings and some music of the time. We would like your involvement too in the form of any photographs or memorabilia of family or friends and any connection with Brooklands and Weybridge during 1918 you might have. You can send any details directly to me via steveclarke@brook- landsmuseum.co.uk or call me on 07860 355525 to have a chat. Just to remind you how easy it is to book


tickets for all these forthcoming events – for Classic Talks e-mail talks@brooklandsmembers.co.uk or telephone 07880 670359. For the Motor Sport Legends series go to brooklandsmuseum.com /members and follow links for on-line sales or call Tim Morris or Jeni Larwood in the BTM Office, 01932 857381 extension 226 Monday to Friday 10.00am to 5.00pm. To check out the food menu for each talk please call 07857 874456 (recorded announcement), available four days before the event. Thank you all for your continued support. Steve Clarke and the Talks Team


BTM TALK –BROOKLANDS’ FIRST FLIGHT News


Eric Verdon-Roe with the replica of the Roe I biplane (Gareth Tarr).


was the diet pioneering aviator A V Roe survived on whilst he fanatically experimented in his work shed at the circuit in late 1907 and early 1908. Finally, after much taxiing up and down the Track, on 8th June 1908 he saw air under the wheels of his aeroplane. Britain’s first powered flight had taken place, even if it only lasted possibly 75 yards. Some 110 years later A V’s grandson, publisher Eric Verdon-Roe, retold the story of the historic flight and the man behind it


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hey don’t serve tinned fish and prunes in the restaurant at Brooklands today but that


to a fascinated audience at June’s Brooklands Trust Members’ Classic Talk. Born in Manchester in 1877, Alliott Verdon-


Roe was no great scholar and was sent to Canada when he was 14. Unable to find work (he survived by catching fish which he sold to sailors), he returned to England and became an apprentice engineer in Horwich. Later he joined the Merchant Navy and, observing how albatrosses managed to fly with seemingly little effort, he was inspired to build his own glider models. Returning to England he stayed with his


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