LAUNCH OF FLY FESTIVAL!

This booking page is for the DAYTIME Flying High Weekend events taking place at Croydon Aerodrome Hotel on Saturday 3rd May.

Your donation on this booking page will admit you to all daytime events in this venue for this date only.

The weekend's activities for Amy 95 taking place with our partners, neighbouring Croydon Airport, need to be booked separately here: www.historiccroydonairport.org.uk

Children's plane making workshops taking place at London Croydon Aerodrome Hotel the following day, Sunday 4th May, need to be acquired separately. Please visit www.flyinghightour.co.uk and follow the links to the workshop of your choice.

Booking for workshops is essential due to limited space.

Separate booking systems enable us to keep track of numbers for each event.

ACCESS:

The events at London Croydon Aerodrome Hotel are on the flat with accessible entrance form the street. Please get in touch if you need someone to guide you to the event upon arrival at the venue.

PUBLIC TRANSPORT:

The 119 bus is frequent from East Croydon Station to the Colonnades retail park opposite.

There is parking available but we anticipate high numbers for the weekend so please arrive early to park at the venue. Free parking outside Croydon Airport House. Paid parking outside London Croydon Aerodrome Hotel and option to park at the retail centre across the Purley Way.

WHAT IS THE EVENT?

The Flying High Weekend and Amy 95 celebrate the 95th anniversary of one of the most significant flights in aviation history; Amy Johnson's solo flight from England to Australia, which began on 5th May 1930 at Croydon Aerodrome.​​

The weekend events 3rd-4th May 2025 will showcase the work going on countrywide to keep Amy's legacy alive and build on the ever popular Croydon Airport open days. These open days, taking place first Sunday of the month, have brought thousands of people from across the UK and further afield to the iconic Grade 2 listed Art Deco building of Croydon Airport House to discover the magic of this hugely significant and important gem of a building.

DAYTIME EVENTS at Croydon Aerodrome Hotel, Saturday 3rd May are detailed in the Agenda and feature TALKS, an EXHIBITION of invited organisations in aviation, engineering and creative projects inspired by Amy and to accompany the LAUNCH OF FLY FESTIVAL.

FLY Festival is an ambitious a five year long programme of cultural activity in the lead up to 2030, the centenary of Amy's solo flight to Australia.... we are at the very beginning of the creation of this adventure... You are very invited and can find out more at the launch and take part in our first stages in the three CREATIVE WORKSHOPS we're offering !

As part of the weekend there is an evening performance on 3rd May of Jenny Lockyer's 'stunning', one woman-show, 'Amy Johnson: Last Flight Out.'

TICKETS MUST BE PURCHASED SEPARATELY FROM

There will be an after-show Q&A with show creator, Jenny Lockyer, Amy Johnson researcher and historian, Jane Delamine and adventure pilot, Amanda Harrison. This will be an opportunity to see the show and then take part in a Q&A exploring aspiration and adventure....

About Jenny Lockyer

Since creating, 'Amy Johnson: Last Flight Out', inspired by Amy Johnson, Jenny has performed the show to thousands of people and worked with thousands of children in schools sharing Amy's story through engaging creative workshops. Coming from the world of performance Jenny is excited to see how Amy's story connects with audiences across the country. In creating the Flying High Tour, supported by Arts Council England, Jenny has been taking the show to new audiences, aiming to inspire with Amy's adventures and exploring how we can bring our own dreams to reality. Jenny has been working with Jane and Amanda to create FLY festival; an ambitous 5 year creative movement with an aim to inspire with Amy's story. Mixing the creativity of arts and engineering FLY will provide opportunities to collaborate and create and aspire as we head towards 2030 and the centenary of Amy's flight to Australia!

About Jane Delamaine

Founder and Director of the Amy johnson project, Jane Delamaine has dedicated the past 13 years to bringing Amy back to life for a whole new generation and not allowing her memory to slip out of history. Jane will have delivered her illusrated talk, The Life and Death of Amy Johnson earlier that day for the Flying High Weekend event at Croydon Aerodrome Hotel.

Jane joins this after show Q&A as someone with a vast knwledge of Amy's life and as a believer that Amy's story cannot fail to inspire and empower.

About Amanda Harrison

Amanda is the true spirit of adventure. From an early age, Amanda had a dream of being a pilot. From small beginnings she has successfully navigated a twenty year journey towards her biggest dream - solo pioneering a vintage aeroplabe across the globe. Solo2Darwin was Amanda's tribute Amy johnson.

No stranger to diversions and emergencies, Amanda has faced challenges of dyslexia, cancer and a commerical pilot career in a male-dominated world. Amanda believes that ordinary peopelc an do extraordinary things and is aliving example of this. She's passionate about inspiring others to keep their dreams alive and live them. Not everyone has to elarn to fly... just follow your own dreams.

Amanda will have delivered a talk on her Solo2Darwin adventure earlier that day for the Flying High Weekend event at Croydon Aerodrome Hotel.

Supported by Arts Council England and Trinity School.

For more information on the aims of the tour please visit www.flyinghightour.co.uk

REFUNDS: You can request a refund up to 7 days prior to the event but should you find you're not able to attend after all, we encourage you to find someone else to come in your place. All ticket sales enable the event to take place with funds going directly to the artists

Info: This official launch will explain our aims with FLY in an introduction from co-director, Jenny Lockyer. Since creating, 'Amy Johnson: Last Flight Out', inspired by Amy Johnson, Jenny has performed the show to thousands of people and worked with thousands of children in schools sharing Amy's story through engaging creative workshops. In creating the Flying High Tour Jenny has been taking the show to new audiences, aiming to ispire with Amy's adventures and exploring how we can bring our own dreams to reality. Jenny has been working with Jane and Amanda to create FLY festival; an ambitous 5 year creative movement with an aim to inspire with Amy's story. Mixing the creativity of arts and engineering FLY will provide opportunities to collaborate and create and aspire as we head towards 2030 and the centenary of Amy's flight to Australia. Not too shabby, really!

Info: An opportunity to be involved as we explore how FLY can make an impact supporting Aspiration and instigating collaborations across the arts and engineering.

Info: About Jane Delamaine
Founder and Director of the Amy johnson project, Jane Delamaine has dedicated the past 13 years to bringing Amy back to life for a whole new generation and not allowing her memory to slip out of history. Jane will have delivered her illusrated talk, The Life and Death of Amy Johnson earlier that day for the Flying High Weekend event at Croydon Aerodrome Hotel.
Jane joins this after show Q&A as someone with a vast knwledge of Amy's life and as a believer that Amy's story cannot fail to inspire and empower.

Info: An opportunity to be involved as we explore how FLY can make an impact supporting Aspiration and instigating collaborations across the arts and engineering.

Info: Amanda is the true spirit of adventure. From an early age, Amanda had a dream of being a pilot. From small beginnings she has successfully navigated a twenty year journey towards her biggest dream - solo pioneering a vintage aeroplabe across the globe. Solo2Darwin was Amanda's tribute Amy johnson.
No stranger to diversions and emergencies, Amanda has faced challenges of dyslexia, cancer and a commerical pilot career in a male-dominated world. Amanda believes that ordinary peopelc an do extraordinary things and is aliving example of this. She's passionate about inspiring others to keep their dreams alive and live them. Not everyone has to elarn to fly... just follow your own dreams.

Info: An opportunity to be involved as we explore how FLY can make an impact supporting Aspiration and instigating collaborations across the arts and engineering.

Info: TICKETS: www.flyinghightour.co.uk Born in the year the Wright brothers made their first powered flight and into an age where the romantic heights of flying captured her heart, Amy Johnson became the first British woman to qualify as a ground engineer and then, in 1930, the first woman in history to fly solo from England to Australia.
Amy lived her life for adventure and the future of aviation. In January 1941, at just 37 years old, Amy was killed while serving her country on a routine flight for the Air Transport Auxiliary, after bailing out of her plane into the Thames Estuary at Herne Bay.
In her short life this ‘lone girl flier’ achieved so much while faced with challenges of all kinds.
We meet Amy in a world of memories, desires, wishes and ambitions. As we find out about her life we start to see how the pieces fit and the tools Amy used to engineer her dreams to reality....

Info: A showcase of some of the extraordinary work going on across the UK featuring organisations and projects from t he worlds of aviation,engineering and the arts, including a celebration of the work that's taken place with the Flying High Tour!

Host or Publisher Jenny Lockyer