A menu celebrating a landmark in British aviation – the first flight from London to Brighton, accomplished in 1911 – sold for £750 at Bellmans on July 15 against an estimate of £200-300.
It was on February 15 of that year that a Bleriot XI monoplane piloted by Oscar Morison took off from Brooklands aerodrome, near Weybridge, and just a little over an hour later crash-landed on Brighton beach, at ‘Banjo Groyne’.