TALK 20: Robert Blackburn
Wrecking Ball Music and Books, Whitefriargate, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, HU1 2ER
Robert Blackburn was one of the early aviation pioneers constructing and flying his first aeroplane in 1910. He formed the Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor company in Leeds in 1914 before expanding his premises and setting up a factory at Brough in 1916. The site, by then part of the BAE Systems company, celebrated its centenary in 2016 and remains in use today. This talk will give a potted history of the site, its development and many of the aircraft that it has been associated with over that period, including the famous
Buccaneer.
Wrecking Ball Music and Books, Whitefriargate, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, HU1 2ER
Please note that there is a flight of stairs up to the lecture room.