Air Navigation Acts

20 Aug 2017 11:02 - 20 Aug 2017 11:04 #1 by mbriscoe
Air Navigation Acts was created by mbriscoe
I came across a page in a newspaper of 6th March 1913 that had a series of announcements of the Air Navigation Acts, seems to be in every newspaper around that time.

The list of prohibited place is interesting, also the places that are not listed.

From the British Newspaper Archive

Belfast Weekly News - Thursday 06 March 1913
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Home Office. Whitehall. Ist March, 1913.

SCHEDULE 1.

Prohibited Areas.

Each of the places named or described ia the following list, with the land and territorial watera surrounding such place distance of three geographical miles in all directions from its boundary, shall be a prohibited area for the purposes of the foregoing order No. 1 :- Kirkwall town, Flotta (island of). Thurso town, Cromarty Ness, Invergordon pier. Aberdeen wireless station, Montrose town. Brougbty Ferry Castie, Inchkeith Island, Rosyth Dockyard, Pitfirvane Park, Forth Bridge, Tynemouth north pier lighthouse, Elswick railway station, Cleethorpes wireless station. Louth railway station. Wroxham Broad (Norfolk). Weedon railway station (Northamptonshire). Landguard Point breakwater (Felixstowe), Parkeston Quay, Ipswich wireless station. Shoeburynees Church, Fobbing Church, Tilbury Fort, Purfleet railway station. Barking Creek mouth. Waltham Abbey railway station, Enfield Lock railway station, Chatham Dockyard, Teapot Hard. Chittenden farm, All Hallows' Church, Grain Martello Tower, Sheerness Dockyard, Dover Castle, Archcliffe Fort, Lydd railway station, Newhaven station, harbour, and jetty; Fort Cumberland. Spithead (namely, the space between a line from Lee-on-Solent pier to Wootton Point, and a line from Southsea Castle to Seaview Pier), Portsmouth Dockyard, Cosham railway station, Fareham railway station. Culver Cliff naval signal station, Needles lighthouse, Southampton docks, Marcbwood Park. Hurst Castle, Osmington Church, Weymouth pier. Portland convict pier. Turnchapel railway station. Plvmstock railway station. Keyham Dockyard. Devonport Dockyard, Saltash railway bridge. Penlee Point, Thorn Island (Milford Haven). Pembroke wireless station. Old Milford railway station. Stand's Head, Barrow-in-Furness town. Stevenston railway station, Greenock Pier, so much of Loch Long as lies north of a line drawn due east from Knap Point. Carrickfergos railway station, Grey Point, Spike Island, Haulbowline Dockyard.


I have tried to tidy up the transcription but probably still some errors

At the same time there are reports of the RN buying Parseval airships from Germany!

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