Relocating a house for the Handley Page Atlantic

Moving the Innotts’ family home to facilitate the construction of ‘Handley Page by the Sea,’ 1919.

Future Premier, Joseph Smallwood, then working as a journalist, related details of the aerodrome’s construction in an article for the Evening News. “It wasn’t one field, but a series of gardens and farms, with rock walls between them,” Smallwood wrote. “These all had to be considerable obstructions, a barracks [sic], which had to be destroyed. Gangs of men carried out this work and then, when all was cleared, a heavy roller, drawn by three horses and weighed down with several hundred pounds of iron bars, eliminated the hummocks. The result, after a month, was a bumpy aerodrome.”