Oh dear Ian! Sometimes one would wish colleagues kept things to themselves. One of mine mentioned several spitfire canopies they had dumped!

So many treasures must end up in landfill. I acquired loads of stuff a few years ago from a wartime pilot’s family….they had been resting between trips to the tip with a cup of coffee and saw my plea for stuff. The ‘dregs’ were good – I really did not want to know what had already gone. The year before last, a museum volunteer had seen a skip outsdie a house and looked in to see the log books, medals oand isignia of a Polish fighter pilot. He asked if he could have them.