AIR BASE’S FATE
RETURN TO VEGETABLE FIELD.
From cabbages and potatoes to a great airship base. And now hack again to potatoes and cabbages! That is the fate ivliich the decision of Mr J. E. Mortimer, one of the principal landowners in the district, to dismantle the great airship station at Howden, Yorkshire, means for the town. It is the final blow since the RlOl disaster. Until the war Howden was an agricultural centre. Then someone decided it was suitable for an airship base. Tbe airship station which was then built- cost £270,000, covered sixteen acres, consisted op 8000 tons of steelwork, and boused sixteen . airships. And when the mighty RIOO sailed for Cardington, never to return, great things were prophesised. But that, was the end;
Mr Mortimer, who bought the airship station after Britain’s airship policy had been scrapped, spent years in trying to place Howden on the arr map before failure forced him to de* cido to “scrap the lob.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1933, Page 6
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