The Road to 2011

1936 - A Sense in Time

So what else was happening in 1936 as the Founders of APS were assembling their new school, and what did the world look like? Some notes from the year help paint a picture:

• King George V died in January 1936, and Edward VIII was on the throne when APS founded, to be followed by George VI in December.
• The RMS Queen Mary made her maiden voyage across the Atlantic
• The Summer Olympics were staged in Berlin
• The Crystal Palace was destroyed in a massive fire
• Ringway Airport (now Manchester Airport) was still being built and wouldn’t start operations until 1938.
• The BBC started regular television transmissions from Alexandra Palace in 405 line black and white.
• The very first telephone call around the world was only the year before in 1935.
• The threat of another war in Europe was in most peoples’ minds