![Flying – 2](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/DesertMtScene1HRT_BUSMT_BUSMT_2000_227_47-001-Cropped-470x140.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. During the 1930s air travel moved from being the preserve of pioneering aviators and the rich to scheduled air services within reach…
![Enjoying Marseille with Amice and Hugh Calverley, 4 October 1929](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Count_of_Monte_Cristo_1913-detail.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. The last post described Myrtle’s voyage from the UK to Marseilles, via Gibraltar, in 1929. There she was joined by two more…
![Happy Birthday, Myrtle!](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Broome_279_04p-cropped.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. Myrtle’s birthdays were celebrated with birthday cake, presents and cards from family and friends in England and Egypt, as well as special…