aldershot

daveg4otu.tripod.com/airfields/far2.html has pictures by the same photographer (Mays of Aldershot) of airships at Aldershot and Farnborough. Aldershot [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldershot] and Farnborough [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnborough,_Hampshire] are close together in southeastern England, in the northeast of Hampshire, near the border with Surrey (~35 miles southwest of London)

Just noticed that an enthusiast put the Bain airship photos up on Flickr (in 2005). See, for example, www.flickr.com/photos/39411748@N06/6182473349/.

And the (UK) Imperial War Museum has many such pictures. See www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205192495

See www3.hants.gov.uk/aldershot-museum/local-history-aldersho... for some history on the searchlight tattoos.

H.A.C. is probably Honourable Artillery Company. From what I can see "Fargo Camp" may have been on Salisbury Plain and not in Aldershot. See map at www.rgcrompton.info/crompton/1805info8c.html So far, I have not been able to connect the HAC with Fargo camp (other than through these captions). However, it may just have been a summer exercise,

More on this: "From 1899, part of Salisbury Plain to the north west of the village was used for artillery practice and a camp was set up on Durrington Down. By the beginning of the First World War there were three tented camps known as Durrington, Larkhill, and Fargo Camps; which were later replaced by permanent brick buildings. The military expansion caused a decline in all types of farming as the army occupied most of the land, however, the rapid rise in population brought about the establishment of many shops and business. After the Second World War the town expanded between Netheravon Road and the river Avon, including large council estates and two new schools. Durrington remains as an army-orientated community." www.wiltshire.gov.uk/south_wiltshire_settlement_setting_a...