Just Googled, Lightnings were used in action by the Saudis in Yemen, as for the B-47, don’t know, some electronic warfare versions could have been used in Vietnam.

Looks like another for the BNP then ? 🙂

I love the way this thread had moved from the origins and ethics behind selling a former RAF station sign on Ebay, to ridding the country of “pikeys”. 😉

You’re right and I appologise for adding my tuppence worth, mind you, it was Moggy the Mod who started this vitreol.
Just to get back on thread, I remember many years ago, out on my bike and sniffing around the then substantial remains of RAF Bottesford, I found the station sign still in situ, I’m sure it was painted on wood, rather large and heavy and attempts to ride home with this thing under my arm proved impossible, did anyone save it, and how many original station signs have in fact survived. The armed guard on the gate put me off liberating the sign at Coltishall the other week, I expect it will go to a good home, however.

An interesting thread.

If I was Pete Truman, I would keep everything as long as humanly possible. If the financial situation is that bad then you may, reluctantly, have to let these things go. In this case I’m sure your Father would rather see these things sold to help you.

Regarding display, I have a lot of things that have been left to me or that I have picked up over the years and I display as much as I possibly can. My front room was once described by a fellow forumite as a “Shrine to anorakdom!” I can’t imagine why but I am inordinately proud of that description. Some things I would part with if necessary, others will be retained to my dying day.

I like TT’s comment about a bucket of Aircrew Europe Stars. Let’s have a bucketful on show in the RAF Museum, in a bucket. Might make people stop and think a bit more. 55,000 aircrew died with Bomber Command? Out of how many who served as aircrew?

Regards,

kev35

I would never, ever, sell any of my fathers personal stuff, I still have his war diaries as well, that I can’t yet go through, as I’ve said before, he is greatly missed and my mothers 90th birthday party last week was brilliant, but most of the time we spent reminissing with his pals about the old boy, and it was a hard act to follow.

If anyone is in the area, go to Theberton church, near Leiston, Suffolk, there are pieces of a Zeppelin in there that was brought down in WW1, very strange thing to find in a church.

BigVerne.
Wasn’t the radar unit and Oerlikon system based at Waddington for a while, I seem to remember driving by in the 80’s and seeing it being used in an exercise, we got out of my old MG and watched the fun, probably about 1988, when I try to think of why I was passing, had just surveyed a store in Hull and, on the way home, went on a grand tour of Lincolnshire air bases, via the Humber bridge. Unfortunately it was so foggy that the Binbrook Lightnings were’nt flying that day, the Cottesmore Tornadoes were, superior systems I guess.
Judging by some of the attention we recieved that day, word had got around the system about the mysterious MGB that was stalking all the Lincolnshire airbases.

Ok, so they are all fitted up with cannon, but I can’t believe in 4 Mk 9’s flying together, back to Pearl Harbor……. shudder.

Thanks chaps, sorry to have twisted this thread.
I was born in 1950 when you were made aware that everyones mother and father had ‘Done their bit’
My old man was never shy about telling me of his adventures, some were, my sons other grandfather, despite having a heroic career in the Desert Rats, was never forthcoming, I was the only person that got anything out of him and he never had a single artifact to remind him of what he had gone through.
In 1994, myself and my son took father back to Arromanches to find the spot where he landed, we had a fantastic time.
When the old boy died last year, and we are talking about a fantastic, eccentric character, who everyone loved, sorry just writing this has reduced me to tears, we miss him so much. Where was I, when I phoned my son to tell him of my fathers death, his first words were, ‘Oh no, I wanted to go back to the Normandy beaches with him, to go through it one last time’.
But it wasn’t to be.
However, despite the words, I really don’t think that he has any real interest in cluttering himself with the family paraphinalia.
Having said that, my stepson who is 11, seems to have more of an interest in it, when I appeared with the SS helmet the other night, he was beside himself, though I think that this may have something to do with Fawlty Towers rather than historical interest, but who knows, his Hungarian roots may prove otherwise, they keep piling me up with stuff.
Sorry about the Hornby Dublo Moggy, I must confess to carrying out a survey on a house and relieving them of a turntable, signals and a collection of Dinky Toy tyres that I found in the cellar under a pile of coal.
What exactly went missing when your builders vanished.
I have decided that nothing of the family heritage will be sold, I just have to make it more accesible somehow, perhaps the shelves in the dining room.

The Spitfires look to be early marks, the filming is in the winter, judging by the state of the trees, Angels One Five featured Hurricanes and most of the Spitfires in Reach for the Sky were low back models.
Must be something made in the 40’s, but haven’t a clue what.