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3 unusual facts about Laurence Bagley


Laurence Bagley

In 1953, as a commemoration of Queen Elizabeth's Coronation year, the government commissioned a number of artists, most of them famous, but also some upstarts, to paint pictures of the coronation.

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In the early 60's when Westland began to develop the hovercraft at the Saunders-Roe site (later to become The British Hovercraft Corporation) at Cowes, Isle of Wight, he painted dozens of artists impressions of their proposed new designs.

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In the same year Bagley’s first book, How to Fly was published by Blackie and Son, followed by The Boy's Book of Aircraft in 1954.



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