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A printed document advertising the Wallbro aeroplane display on Whit-Monday and Tuesday, May 16th and 17th, 1910.

12 St Barnabas Road, Ventnor

Those magnificent men in their flying machines

1913

Samuel Banks Wallis

1962 –


In 1910 Horace and Percival Wallis decided to build a plane in their shed in the back garden of 12 St Barnabas Road and then allow the general public to come and view it for sixpence a time.

Read the full story in this newspaper article from Mike Petty

The Wallbro plane of St Barnabas Rd

https://wallisandson.co.uk/history/

 

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