George Herbert Volk

George Herbert "Bert" Volk (10 May 1881 in Brighton – after 1913) was a British automobile and general engineer noted as a pioneer builder of seaplanes.

[2] During this period he farmed at Mooi River (town) near Durban and, in January 1908, married Annie Hephzibah "Hephie" Rosanna.

[3] He returned to Brighton in 1909 and in March traveled to Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques in France, where Louis Bleriot had started a flight training school.

[4] The Banjo Groyne at Paston Place was also home to his father's short-lived Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway, which ran east from there.

In 1912 air pioneer Claude Graham White brought his seaplane to Volk's sheds and gave demonstrations.