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Hereford Parachute Club

Website for members of the former Hereford Parachute Club

This website  was created on August 10, 2003.

Two new books have been published by former member Dylan Casper Jones. They are entitled 'Death by Skydiving and Other Scary Stories' and Eastern Subversions' . Both these books and others by Dylan are available from Amazon.


                                       

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 The Hereford Parachute Club was first established in 1963  by the 22nd SAS Regiment based in Hereford, Herefordshire, UK. This was at the request from civilian residents in Hereford who wished to start sport parachuting and the club was formed at  Shobdon Airfield, Hereford.

The club operated part-time until 1976 when it changed over to full time operation and continued to do so until it finished operation’s at Shobdon in 1990 and moved to Staverton Airfield in Gloucester and operated a split Drop Zone.

The club again was now part time and continued until it finally closed down in 1992. Over the many years that it operated, it trained 1000’s of civilians to make their first jump and in its hay-day of the early 1980’s was training 3000 person’s a year to parachute. Many of these continued in the sport and went on further into, freefall, RW, CRW, Base jumping and had careers such as photography in Skydiving.

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This photo pinched off Ian McLaren's website. Fair exchange is no robbery.

It shows the once orchard now a large gravel pit.

 

Shobdon 1986   © Les Kaye

 

Photo taken by an un-named parachutist

(who was it? perhaps Ian Robinson of the Swansea club)

 

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I would welcome any information or photo's that anyone could send to me about the club during the years that it operated.

Have you got a story about the club or any of its members? to tell? Please send them to me, although in some cases I may have to edit them a bit!