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| 6 Nov 2023 | |
| Heritage |
Back in 1936 the airmail pictured above was one of only 30 envelopes sent from Jamaica marking the first flight of the Zeppelin 'The Hindenburg'.
It was sent from Barclays Bank in Kingston, Jamaica on 2nd May 1936 to Lakehurst, New Jersey USA and is marked "First Flight Hindenburg". It then travelled on the Airship on 12th May to Frankfurt am Main, Germany where it arrived on 14th May and then on to England. The Airship sadly later exploded at Lakehurst in May 1937.
The Airmail was addressed to pupil at the time Philip Richard Thomson Mortimer (C 34-38) who came from Wimbledon. The airmail was found online by Mark Taylor (F 77-82) who shared the details with the Bradfield Society.
Fascinating how small the world must have felt when these type of communications were possible all those years ago.
