I photographed the Speke Mosquito in 1968 on our way home from a holiday on the Isle of Man – managed to persuade Dad to divert from Liverpool Docks on our way home to Coventry! Can’t find the slide for some reason 🙁

On another note, although it wasn’t a Gate Guardian at an RAF station Armstrong-Whitworth displayed the A.W.52G outside their works at Whitley, Coventry, (now Jaguar) for a while.

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I seem to recall that it was scrapped around 1957 along with the Scimitar

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which ended its days in R.J.Coley’s yard …

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I’m thinking of starting a thread on “The One’s That Got Away” … what do you think?

Answered my own question by poking around the forum … http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?114348-Historic-airframes-preserved-then-lost-again