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I have had a look at the Yatton Parish Register images on Ancestry. The entry for James (3 February 1744/5) is as follows: "the son of James & Mary Knowles". The entry for William is as follows: "the son of Mary Knowles widow".

It is quite clear from this that James the elder died some time after 3 February 1744/5 and before 27 July 1746. The burial at Kingston Seymour on 19 January 1745/6 fits nicely within this short timespan and provides pretty compelling evidence that this was your James KNOWLES.

Incidentally there was a marriage of a James KNOWLES to Mary BROOKMAN at Kingston Seymour on 12 June 1729 and several children of that marriage were christened there. It is possible that this was also your James KNOWLES.

Dave Erasmus

I was in Weston Library this week looking at some documents and I found this dated 1898, are you still interested?

An excellent book for information about this area is  "Weston-Super-Mare and the Aeroplane"  by Roger Dudley &Ted Johnson.  It is now available on Kindle  

If you haven't already done so, contacting  The Helicopter Museum at Weston should provide the photographs you seek