"Preserved" at Lasham…

After the recent ‘most neglected but preserved aircraft’ thread I took a few minutes to visit Lasham this afternoon.
I have to say that it was a deeply depressing place. The only work that I saw in progress was a gentleman flattening mole-hills. The aircraft themselves look as though they haven’t been touched for many a year but while I must say that I am unqualified to comment this would also be the impression taken away by members of the visiting public. In fact, due to the complete lack of identification signs, I had to tell a couple what the Drover was and why it was so significant in this hemisphere – and that it had not been retrieved from a fire dump like it appeared. Both the Drover and the Prentice were resting on their undercarriage legs – the tyres and wheels having (hopefully) been removed for safe keeping/restoration (I wish). Many of the exhibits had flat tyres, a few had sunk up to their axles into the ground, and some had been parked on planks of wood which had snapped and sunk into the ground.
No aircraft seemed to be anything like complete, with the possible exception of the Hunter, and possibly the Wessex (which looked sun-bleached, tatty, but had just the tail rotors missing to the untrained eye).
Both Meteors had the wooden frontage of their jet intakes exposed and rotting – the NF13 especially so. I am sure that I read somewhere that the F8 had once been a candidate for restoration to airworthiness; at the moment I would just be hopeful that it could be preserved…And soon.

I will try and attach a few pix.

Flood.