Kev35
Thankyou for the clarification, I miss understood that Cosford being part of the RAF network then the rules might be the same for them as is at Hendon.
On the several occasions I have been to Cosford I have never use a tripod but several other places have given me responses exactly as you describe, it’s funny though if you were to just walk into a museum with a tripod without asking, then there is alway one who will challenge you like you are an excaped convict, and yet if you do ask for one then you get the obligatory grunt and puzzled look!!.
Regards,
John.