Certainly looks like it, judging from the position of the Viscount and the refuellers at back left. No exact date in my notes, other than it’s consecutively numbered bwteen a bunch taken at Staverton in April 69 and another batch at the Hawarden open day in June – so late spring 69 is the best I can say.
As you say, wow!

William

Roy: I haven’t got anything else of the same vintage as the Bleriot picture (unless you want a picture of my late Auntie Connie in her RFC uniform), but I’m pulling together and scanning some of the better pictures from the late 1960s for anyone’s interest. “I was a teenage planespotter…” 😀

Jon and Atcham Tower: I gather the Polo Club was in Dunbabin Road. Quite where I don’t know, although the site of the modern King David School seems likely, as it’s level. I’ve asked this one of another forum and as and when I get a definitive answer I’ll PM anyone who’s interested, so as not to drift too far off topic on this forum.
Freddie Fyfe was about to take off to gather aerial photographs of the Manchester Ship Canal, he said. Gibbs-Smith (Aviation, HMSO, 1970) identifies the first aerial photographs as dating from 1909, so Freddie was up there with the real pioneers on this one.

I’ll post the teenage planespotter pictures in a day or two – don’t know if this board or the photography one is more appropriate.

Anyone out there admit to having been a menber of the Merseyside Society of Aviation Enthusiasts (MSAE) in the late 60s?

William