Pulham Pigs

Visit from my mother this weekend, back to her roots. We journeyed to Pulham St Mary and drove up to the house where she was born 84 years ago. Her father, my Grandpa, worked on the airships from 1920 until 1930 when the R101 disaster brought an end to government investment in airship technology. Gramps was a radio and telecommunications engineer, flying in this craft in that capacity. He went on to work in Air Traffic Control, before and after the introduction of Radar.

There has been an exhibition celebrating the Pulham airships at The Pennoyer Centre in Pulham St Mary from which this image is drawn.

Pulham Pigs? Apparently, when a local man looked up at a huge early airship floating above Pulham he said, "Thet luk loike a gret ol' pig!" and the name stuck.