CLW Curlew

CLW Curlew is lurking in the hangar of Essex Aero in this photo from Alex Henshaw’s personal album …
 

Thank you, nonetheless, for trying, MM.

I don’t think the Curlew photo is included in the Wayback Machine pages, AA. I realised it was possible to filter the images and, as many were clearly named, it reduced the search considerably! Also many are obviously from digital cameras labelled DSC_ so I ruled them out too. I’d be more than happy to be proved wrong in this case should someone else come across the photo in question!

Yes and with no guarantee of success!

That sounds like a cure for insomnia, MM!

It appears the Internet Archive Wayback Machine grabbed quite a few snapshots of the old GAHP website. I tried searching for the link you posted AA but without success. However, there are a lot of photos and uploads listed without any detail as to what they are and it may be the photo does exist somewhere on there. Only 1,372 pages to check! 

https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://gahp.org.uk*

Thank you, MM. I’m grateful that there are people more adept than me in finding their way around the internet. I shall have to await the arrival of the new GAHP website and hope that the photograph has been uploaded to it. I can’t think why I didn’t make a copy of it at the time.

Hi AA,

I assume the website was the Gravesend Airport Heritage Project photo database which appears to be on Flickr nowadays. Having said that, I tried reducing your link to  http://gahp.org.uk and it tells me there should be a new website along soon!

The Flickr group link is here –

https://www.flickr.com/groups/gahpuk/

Group Description

Gravesend Airport Heritage Project is an informal group set-up to research, explore and commemorate the wartime RAF station at Gravesend in Kent and its former existence as London East Airport.

This group should eventually contain the Gravesend Airport Heritage Project image database; providing open access to the library of photographs and other documents that we have collected or had donated to us.

Unfortunately it doesn’t yet appear to show the photo to which you referred. Hopefully they are still adding to their collection!

In my post on 16 July 2016 I said:

The last photograph in the collection at http://gahp.org.uk/photos/index.php?/category/20 goes some way to answering my initial question. It was taken in 1956. Judging from it, I doubt that the remains of the Curlew survived much beyond this date.

As I cannot now remember what was this website above or anything about the photograph, to which I referred, and as this website seems to have ceased to exist (at least, it’s not accessible to me online), can anyone please shed light in my darkness and, better still, provide me with a working hyperlink to it?

Similarly, the hyperlink in Malcolm McKay’s post of 17 July 2016 now no longer works – but having found the generic website, I suspect that it referred to Curlews of the feathered, rather than aeronautical, variety!