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Between 8.30 PM & 9 PM.

SWANSEA BOY AND A WHIZZING NOISE

Master Harold Gibbs, son of a superintendent of the estate department under Swansea Corporation, claims to have heard the aeroplane between half-past eight and nine on Saturday evening on the Parade Mayal of the Town Hall Garden City, Swansea. "I was taking the bread home," he said, "when I heard a hooting noise from St. Thomas way, so I stopped and put down the bread.

My brother was with me; we stopped to listen to it. We heard it whizzing overhead, and there was a hooter in it, and then it passed over in direction of Sketty. We both looked up, but we couldn't see anything.

We could hear the whizzing of the propeller and a sound like a motor horn. It passed as soon as anything. It went over between Honey's Farm and Sketty."

Source: 'Western Mail' Friday 24 January 1913.