BOLDON FLATS
Boldon Flats today is an area subjected to controlled flooding in order to provide a habitat for winter wildfowl.
There's nothing to indicate that there was once a horse racing track here, complete with a couple of grandstands and crowds in their thousands.
Or that a pioneer female aviator made a flight from here that was at that time the longest by a female pilot in the UK. Or that she later crashed here, killing a bystander. Nowadays, the only things flying here are the birds.
There's nothing to indicate that there was once a horse racing track here, complete with a couple of grandstands and crowds in their thousands.
Or that a pioneer female aviator made a flight from here that was at that time the longest by a female pilot in the UK. Or that she later crashed here, killing a bystander. Nowadays, the only things flying here are the birds.