Once again, Julia Hartley-Brewer is spot on: –

Cheers

Paul

According to these two books (links below), MK834 was destroyed on May 19th, 1944, when flak hit the bomb it was carrying during an attack on a Railway Station at Hazebrouck, France.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uvxyCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA214&lpg=PA214&dq=Spitfire+IX+MK834&source=bl&ots=Y1uh6lrEWZ&sig=DHh43AMlx9oxZ5OMHxI0TvsgqaA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiFwsal5ebWAhXH1hoKHSbmACoQ6AEISzAG#v=onepage&q=Spitfire%20IX%20MK834&f=false

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=66V2BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA267&lpg=PA267&dq=Spitfire+IX+MK834&source=bl&ots=P0S1Y9gJ6K&sig=2PCoSgDOsn0pqIa86zU0ZF30AH4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiFwsal5ebWAhXH1hoKHSbmACoQ6AEIWjAJ#v=onepage&q=Spitfire%20IX%20MK834&f=false

It’s pilot, Sqn Ldr Norman Fowlow was killed.

So, MJ754 perhaps?

Cheers

Paul

SF,

I don’t know what planet you were on at the time, and it’s all very well spurting facts and figures, when they have no real meaning.

I remember well how despite all these so called improvements to the police force were told to us, the reality was it different.

In our town, that meant less actual police presence, replaced by the cheap and of little use PCSOs that Blair had us believe would make a big difference.

(I seem to recall about 10 years or so ago, there was a big hoo-ha over cuts by the government in police officers, and cockups with criminal record checks, and convictions abroad).

But whoever you want to blame, the fact is, Blair and his government had a very big part in ******* our police force up, and the country as a whole – something we are sadly still paying for.

Cheers

Paul

One day we might get some value out of our police.

Indeed.

And one day, we might actually see them on the streets again!

Thanks to that tit Tony Blair and his then government, the reduction of police on our local streets diminished to one community officer that had to deal with a wide local area, supported in the end, by just one of those dreaded PCOs!

Not forgetting the fact that they decided it would be a wise idea to shut down our local police station and sell it off (along with a whole host of others around the country).

So roll the clock forward to today, and I can say that I have not seen one single police officer in our town or local area this year!

So if you are a victim of a crime, don’t bother trying to find one, and don’t even bother letting them know, unless of course it qualifies as a hate one.

Then you’ll probably have half a dozen of them round at once!

Cheers

Paul

Spitfire IX TA805 ‘Spirit of Kent’ closing the Shottermill Air Crash 75th Memorial service at Gibbet Hill, Hindhead, late this afternoon.

(Thanks Richard, and all at BHHH).

😀

Cheers

Paul

Interesting pic..

Yes, the bottom part of the tailwheel appears to be missing!

Cheers

Paul

That’s good to hear.

(Well, the last part anyway)!

Here’s to a safe and successful show tomorrow.

Cheers

Paul

think more in terms of paying a club membership, your mortgage or car finance, stop paying them and the club doors will close, your house or car will go and your chances of going elsewhere are slim to zero, however give notice on your club, pay dues to date then other clubs will make you welcome, sell your house or car pay off the finance and of course you will readily get a new mortgage and/or car finance.

SF,

That’s not too good an analogy if I may say so.

It’s the straightforward issue that you leave ‘your club’ owing something, but you then get a bill that is disproportionate to what you know you actually owe them.

Which is the very same argument Britain has with the EU and their ‘termination’ bill, and the figure they are trying to claim we should pay.

So I guess it’s down to the our legal experts (and theirs) to prove that the final figure is justified, or not.

Cheers

Paul