Tickettyboo <tickettyboo@mail2oops.com> wrote: > On 2013-07-07 21:57:26 +0000, Tickettyboo said: > > Thank you to everyone who has pitched in to help, this discussion has > gone beyond my original two query points and I am grateful for the input. > I am blushing slightly here, my friend loaned me the (very full) file he > has with the bits n pieces he has obtained, mostly from official sources. > I really am impressed with what he has found, but its a bit > higgedly-piggedly and I am trying to go through and list it in a 'time-line'. > In there I have found a copy of a press release for the Defence Esates > Annual Report in 2000. It says the report features the Fulton block at RAF Cosford. > <quote> > built in memory of Captain J D B Fulton, regarded as one of the founders > of what became the RAF, Captain Fulton commanded one of two Royal > Engineer Air Battalions, and was largely responsible for reforming them > as the Royal Flying Corps in 1912. > </quote> > (From other documents in the file, JDBF commanded No 2 Battalion, which > was the first 'heavier than air'[planes], Battalion - No 1 was balloons.) > > <quote> > Fulton block was built in memory of Captain Fulton in 1938 at a cost of > £250,000 bequeathed by Lady Fulton. > </quote> > > > So he 'does' have official-ish confirmation that the block was named for > the man whose sword he owns. The Defence Estates seems to have been > replaced by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (a rose by any other > name). I'll contact them and see if they can shed any light. > > JDBF's parents were Frederick George Fulton, a shipowner ( name from CWGC > entry and occupation from JBDF's entry in the Royal Military Academy > Woolwich Register) and Jane Elizabeth (maiden name not yet known) who, > according to the 1891 census, was a widow, born c 1848 Yorkshire. Jane > Elizabeth died in 1910 and JDBF was her executor. Her probate entry shows > she left £8282 10s 10d - which seems to be far short of the £250,000 > needed to build the block so I still don't know what relation the Lady > Fulton, who made the bequest, was to JDBF. I notice the Fulton Block is now a Grade II listed building. Perhaps English Heritage have more information about bequest? -- wtwjgc (Joe) <http://welcometowakefield.org.uk/>

wtwjgc (Joe) wrote: %>< > > I notice the Fulton Block is now a Grade II listed building. Perhaps > English Heritage have more information about bequest? > This site does: http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-1407287-fulton-block-raf-cosford-donington- "HISTORY: Funded by Lady Fulton, the widow of one of the pioneers of military aviation in Britain," -- Ian The Hotmail address is my spam-bin. Real mail address is iang at austonley org uk

"Ian Goddard" <goddai01@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message news:b455btFnbr8U1@mid.individual.net... > wtwjgc (Joe) wrote: > %>< >> >> I notice the Fulton Block is now a Grade II listed building. Perhaps >> English Heritage have more information about bequest? >> > > > This site does: > http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-1407287-fulton-block-raf-cosford-donington- > > "HISTORY: Funded by Lady Fulton, the widow of one of the pioneers of > military aviation in Britain," > > > -- > Ian > > The Hotmail address is my spam-bin. Real mail address is iang > at austonley org uk It will be worth asking English Heritage for their evidence on Lady Fulton - listing is usually a careful process but sometimes apocryphal stories survive and then support themselves. If need be an FOI request will bring it all out. However, in parallel, find him a wife!