Mr. Kendrick worked at the steel works for most of his life. He is now a writer and interested in local history.

The aero cub was not a large concern they had a wooden hut with a small bar in there and a hanger with a gypsy moth of a tiger moth or something like that. Occasionally, I remember when I was a child because I had read all the American Pulp Magazines about the First World War so there were two positive things in my life that I wanted to either fly or go to sea. I am not sure which was the stronger. Anyway I never did go to sea and just as well because all the ones that did, died. So I went into the airforce but I never flew because I had suffered a lot of ill health when I was a child. Well the airfield was an area that they had more or less levelled off but it was all grass. In fact you would see the plane bumping and they used to teach people to fly there. I think there was a fella called Morgan and Mr Watkins- he fascinated me but I never spoke to him. You wouldn't presume you could as a child. Anyway I used to watch him in the hanger messing around with these planes; he was the one who kept them flying. At that time I don't know they might have had one or two. It was only a small concern but it grew and eventually there was an air service that ran from there the Ty Hafran Dragon to Western. It wasn't a lot to fly, not by today's standards.
That would be in the 30's.