Daily Archives: March 26, 2016


. This week, on the Vaguely Interesting Podcast, we go back to the 1930s and visit the Croydon Airport to meet the Englishman who started the Spanish Civil War. Just after seven o’clock in the morning on 11 July 1936, Captain Cecil Bebb prepared his plane for take-off. At a quarter past seven, Captain Bebb, along with his navigator Major Hugh Pollard and two female friends, […]

The Englishman who started the Spanish Civil War