Where out of interest is/would the polo club be located? Given I hail from the south of Liverpool (the nice half!!! 😉 ) cant say i have ever encountered it.
Here’s one from a very distant past from the personal archives. Taken at the Liverpool Polo Ground about 1910, it shows a showman called T Elder Hearne and his two, apprarently Spanish, mechanics. Hearne had bough the Bleriot in France not long before, and after a basic flying course managed to get the plane to Liverpool without serious mishap. Alan Bramson’s history of the British light aeroplane has a reference to this event.
His passenger is a chap called Freddie Fyfe, a local photographer. Freddie was a family friend, and he gave the print to me about 1970, a year or so before he died.
Freddie had photographed all manner of people, including aeronautical characters like S F Cody and Claude Graham-White, and as a teenager I hung on his every word. He was later a photographer in the RFC and re-enlisted the second time around ending up as a Squadron Leader.
This may well be the oldest surviving photograph of aviation on Merseyside. Certainly I haven’t seen an earlier one.
William
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