I’ve just come back from Ripley, Derbyshire where just before lunchtime a tree was planted by Dr Mary Stopes-Roe (Barnes Wallis’ daughter) commemorating 125 years since Barnes Wallis was born in the town.
Organised by the Barnes Wallis Memorial Trust this event is being followed by a series of Anniversary Lectures in the town; and with some talks tomorrow morning to local school children. The event was covered by BBC East Midlands Today and hopefully I will be able to post some links later.
On my return home I saw that the Halam Lancaster Memorial in Nottinghamshire, which is located close to the crash site of 1661 Heavy Conversion Unit (HCU) Lancaster ED823, was also being featured by BBC East Midlands Today. The piece featured Bomber Command veteran Jim Flint – as with the Ripley item I hope to be able to provide links later on.
By: TwinOtter23 - 26th September 2012 at 19:03
The Barnes Wallis news article is now linked on the BBC Derbyshire website here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-19728385 now just to track down the TV link – nice little item that linked through to the Halam piece! 🙂
By: TwinOtter23 - 26th September 2012 at 19:03
The Barnes Wallis news article is now linked on the BBC Derbyshire website here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-19728385 now just to track down the TV link – nice little item that linked through to the Halam piece! 🙂
By: TonyT - 26th September 2012 at 18:46
Yup both have just been on East Mids Today.
By: TonyT - 26th September 2012 at 18:46
Yup both have just been on East Mids Today.
By: jack russell - 26th September 2012 at 15:27
Excellent!
Talking of Barnes Wallis – Still a very small number of free tickets left for Building the Bouncing Bomb talk http://www.gravityfields.co.uk/event/dambusters-engineering-bouncing-bomb … by Hilary Costello – but you’ll have to be quick!
By: jack russell - 26th September 2012 at 15:27
Excellent!
Talking of Barnes Wallis – Still a very small number of free tickets left for Building the Bouncing Bomb talk http://www.gravityfields.co.uk/event/dambusters-engineering-bouncing-bomb … by Hilary Costello – but you’ll have to be quick!
By: TwinOtter23 - 26th September 2012 at 15:03
Thanks jr the BBC EMT link to the Halam memorial is also now online, although I’m not sure that it’s working 100% yet http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-19730478 🙂
I’ll keep a look out for the Barnes Wallis link as well!
By: TwinOtter23 - 26th September 2012 at 15:03
Thanks jr the BBC EMT link to the Halam memorial is also now online, although I’m not sure that it’s working 100% yet http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-19730478 🙂
I’ll keep a look out for the Barnes Wallis link as well!
By: jack russell - 26th September 2012 at 14:02
Saw this news item earlier on today http://www.itv.com/news/central/2012-09-25/oldest-raf-veteran-meets-memorial-campaigners/
By: jack russell - 26th September 2012 at 14:02
Saw this news item earlier on today http://www.itv.com/news/central/2012-09-25/oldest-raf-veteran-meets-memorial-campaigners/
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