Bleriot Monoplane on Filey Beach.
On an unknown date in late-July 1910 this aircraft cartwheeled onto Filey Beach from a height of fifty feet,
it then rolled for a further twenty feet. The aircraft not suprisingly was destroyed but the pilot was
reported to have been unhurt. This pilot is also believed to have had two other accidents at Filey between
1910 and 1911.
Pilot - Mr John William House, of Bradford.
The Filey at beach.
The incident Mr John House sustained while flying at Apperley Bridge occured on 22nd July 1910, after making
three short flights in his Bleriot, Mr House crashed the aircraft though he escaped injury. The engine of the Bleriot
began to mis-fire and the aircraft lost height, it then struck a stone wall, damaging a wing and the
propeller. A photograph of the damaged aircraft exists and this incident will be covered in its own webpage in due course.
John House and his father Albert had formed Northern Aero Synicate at Apperley Bridge in 1909,
John had built his own glider in 1905, his father owned the first motor car in Bradford. They
flew from Rawden Meadow at Apperley Bridge.
Messer Albert and son John House owned a Bleriot aircraft which they initially flew from their
home area of Bradford. John House had crashed the aircraft at Bradford weeks earlier to this
incident at Filey. They then repaired the aircraft and took it aircraft to Filey to attempt to
win a prize offered for someone flying the two mile stretch of Filey beach to be awarded only
to a person who had not previously won such a competition. After suffering a number of mishaps at
Filey in the summer of 1910 the Northern Aero Synicate company they ran went into liquidation. John
House is then believed to have joined up with Mr Blackburn in buying a cottage on the cliff tops
and assisting him at Filey with his flying activities.