Vampire at Anchor Supplies, Ripley.

On my trips up to Nottingham to see the family, we’ve always made a point of going to Anchor stores in Ripley to buy some army surplus item, whether it be a tent, clothing, useless item or simply to marvel at some of the stuff they sell, like armoured cars or those plastic tubes they kept Blowpipe missiles in, ‘usefull for keeping drawings safe’.
In the car park, on a pole, was mounted a Vampire, it was one of those things you got used to seeing and, if I remember, had the inevitable for sale sign on it. What type it was, I don’t remember, I recall it being in training colours and may have been a 2 seater.
I haven’t been there for a while and wondered whether it was still there and anything at all about it’s history.
I’ve been Googling, searching on here and gone on to Anchor’s web site but zilch.
If you go onto Google Earth, you can clearly see it, but that may be an old picture, anyone know anything about it, it’s an old friend to me that the kids have grown up marvelling at, my big boy, who is now 21 has been transfixed by it since he was strapped into his baby seat, you don’t expect to go to a store and park under the wing of a Vampire, it’s a rare thing.