Bleriot monoplane at Filey.
On Saturday, 20th August 1910 the aeroplane was pushed down the Primrose Valley slipway from the Filey hanger onto the beach at around 08.30hrs and over the day several short flights were made along two miles of beach. At around 17.30hrs an accident occurred during what would have been the last flight of the day. The aeroplane was around half way back to the Primrose Valley slipway and was flying at around ten feet above the sands when, without any apparent warning, the nose dropped and it crashed on the beach. The pilot became trapped under the aeroplane but was found unhurt when rescued. While the newspapers suggest that the damage was repairable the aeroplane may not have actually been repaired.
Pilot - Mr John William House, of Apperley Bridge, Bradford, Yorkshire.
The origins of this Bleriot are suggested in newspapers to have either been the same aeroplane flown by Alfred Leblanc at Blackpool and/or the one owned by Hubert Le Blon. Le Blon crashed at Doncaster in October 1909 and the Northern Aero Syndicate may have bought the wreck from him). After the damage sustained at Apperley Bridge the aeroplane was eventually repaired. It sustained damage at Filey on 13th August 1910 and was repaired within a week. On 20th August 1910 it was again damaged. It was put up for sale by mid-September 1910 and at that date had a 25 H.P Anzonia engine. The Northern Aero Syndicate went into liquidation later in 1910, after which John House is then believed to have joined forces with Mr Blackburn in buying a cottage on the cliff tops and assisting him at Filey with his flying activities.
Mr Albert House and his son John House ran the Northern Aero Syndicate company; John had built his own glider in 1905 and his father was reputed to have been the first motor car owner in Bradford. The pair owned a Bleriot aircraft which they initially flew from their home area of Apperley Bridge, Bradford in 1910. John House had crashed the aircraft at Apperley Bridge on 22nd March 1910 which was then dismantled for repair in a hanger at Apperley Bridge. On 27th April 1910 a hanger fire involving another aircraft that was being tested in the same building saw the fuselage and tail of the Northern Aero Syndicate / House's Bleriot further damaged.