Tom Campbell Black, (December 1899, Brighton, England – 19 September 1936, Liverpool, England) was a famous English aviator.
He was the son of Alice Jean McCullough and Hugh Milner Black. He became a world famous aviator when he and C. W. A. Scott won the London to Melbourne Centenary Air Race in 1934.
Read more about Tom Campbell Black: Early Years, Wilson Airways, The Ernst Udet Rescue, The London To Melbourne Centenary Air Race, The Manx Air Race, Beryl Markham, The Schlesinger Race
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“New York state sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse. And they got no windows in the workhouse. You know, in the old days they used to put your eyes out with a red-hot poker.”
—John Michael Hayes (b. 1919)
“the clanging chains
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