From Rob Baxter's family archives.
Below is a photograph of John Alcock and Arthur Whitten-Brown, snapped while they were eating lunch in front of their aircraft shortly before taking off on their historic flight across the Atlantic in 1919. The photo was taken my grandfather, J.W. Morris, who served for many years as the Manager of the Newfoundland Light & Power Company.
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"ALCOCK AND BROWN HAVING LUNCH AT ST. JOHN'S, NFLD, PRIOR TO TAKING
OFF ACROSS THE ATLANTIC JUNE 14, 1919. THEY CROSSED THE IRISH COAST
AND LANDED IN A BOG AT CLIFDEN, GALWAY AT 9:40 A.M. 16 HOURS AND TWENTY
EIGHT MINUTES AFTER TAKING OFF FROM ST. JOHN'S." ...J.W. Morris