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From Birkenhead to El Ballet Azul: The Billy Higgins Story Everton’s return to the USA for summer fixtures, after a gap of eight years, offers an intriguing link to the past. One of the Toffees’ opponents will be the Millonarios club of Bogotá, which, 71 years ago, was at the epicentre of a storm over footballers being lured from British clubs to a so-called ‘renegade league’. Everton was one of several clubs caught up in the affair, as players were sounded out about crossing the Atlantic in search of a more prosperous future. Here is some context to the sensational turn of events. ...
7th May 2021 11:49 am 7th May 2021 11:49 am One of the most inspirational women of the 20 th century, aviator Amy Johnson was the first female pilot to fly solo from the UK to Australia, as well as the first to gain a ground engineer’s ‘C’ licence. Her mysterious disappearance ensures she will never be forgotten. Written by Nick Smith Birthplace of air traffic control and of the ‘mayday’ signal, Croydon Airport – Britain’s only international aerodrome of the interwar years – was the point of departure for what was to become one of the most famous flights of the 20 th centu...
Londonist Amy Johnson: The Aviatrix Who Made History At Croydon, Then Mysteriously Disappeared In an extract from her book, Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines, Henrietta Heald celebrates aviatrix and engineer, Amy Johnson. Johnson in her Gipsy Moth leaving Australia for Newcastle, 14 June 1930. Image: public domain Amy Johnson's Airspeed Oxford aeroplane mysteriously plunged into the icy-cold Thames estuary near Herne Bay in Kent in January 1941. The circumstances of her death, at the age of 37, caused a storm of controversy that still refuses to die down. According to...