It’s only a thought…..maybe if you’d been on a contract the call would have gone through and you would have received a ginormous bill!
Have to say, if I don’t recognise the number I take the attitude that ‘if it’s important, they’ll ring back…if not, who cares?!?’
By the way, I too hate it when my phone rings in public.

Hmm…so Blue Max has taken umbrage. I’m sad about that; as I said in my early post I am quite new round here and a simple trawl through past threads tells me that he is not. I can see his point of view but I am afraid I still maintain that his response to the OP was impolite. That single sentence, if uttered as spoken word, would have sounded as I suggested it did in post 4. It doesn’t read too well either.
There were so many better ways to answer the OP, especially since the information requested appears to be in the public domain.
I hope we have not seen the last of Blue Max.

Well, I did think there might be a danger of following drivers getting distracted by the pictures and not noticing that the vehicle in front was slowing down/stopping. But looking at the film I have to say, yes……amazing idea. Would love to see it trialled over here!

Marvellous tribute. Must say I have had a small interest in 610 Squadron ever since I read a history of Biggin Hill as a child.
As far as I can tell Fighter Command lost 113 aircraft during the Dunkirk operation, 67 of which were Spitfires; a very substantial slice of the available front line strength.
The army were often to ask, ‘where was the RAF?’ and I think it’s now generally accepted that they were there all right. The nature of aerial combat just meant that those on the ground didn’t get to see what was going on, perhaps miles away and thousands of feet above. Without Fighter Command’s contribution things may well have been very different.
Incidentally, in the light of the subsequent ‘Big Wing’ debate, it is worthy of note that during Dynamo the AOC 11 Group, Keith Park, did use his aircraft in multi squadron formations since they had the time to form up before heading across Channel. Later, when they had no such opportunity, he used them individually.

Wups! Quite right, going to bottom of class!
Sorry ’bout that.

Fascinating!
Dare I say it – naval matters are a particular interest for me.
It would appear that the bulk of the footage in the first set of clips was shot on HMS Whitehall, a V&W class destroyer. Very informative to see depth charges being reloaded and as for where they were stowed, right under the torpedo tubes! A chance hit there would be most, er, explosive!
Film of Dunkirk was very topical, just coming up to the 75th anniversary, and since all I have ever seen of that event is the usual ‘newsreel’ type stuff, very interesting.
Thanks for the link – excellent!

You must have spoken to Mrs Meteor! The vid clip was exactly at the right intellectual level!
Seriously though, thanks for that. Much appreciated.
Not as mobile as I once was but this particular museum has long been on my ‘must visit’ list. I shall definitely pay a visit this year and your pictures have whetted the appetite nicely.

That’s not bad, you know. Think of the notice that you would require for a Temporary Event Notice today. And the police would need to be informed. And Environmental Health. And you’d need Highways to agree to any road closures. Presumably there would have to be a Risk Assessment too – just in case little Tarquin was endangered by a blancmange.