NORFOLK SKYS
"PULHAM PIGS"
Airships based at Norfolk's "International Airport" at Pulham between the wars.
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R33 - returning to Pulham after going adrift in the gale of April 1925


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R33 - showing the result of her argument with the mooring tower

Above images taken from old postcards kindly contributed by Dave Tennant.

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Close-up view of the R34's gondola.
In 1919 she was the first airship to cross the Atlantic from East to West.

Further information is available on the following Links:
The BECKVALE website: "The story of Pulham and its Airships"
Beckvale homepage - the Pulhams and Starston.
The Airship Heritage Trust.
Balloon and Airship Stereoscopic Photographs.