Can’t eat ammunition…

The ammunition is to stop people stealing your tinned food…

ED817, ED912, ED915, ED921¸ ED924, ED929, ED933 are probably in this photo, taken at Lossiemouth in 1946, showing loads of Lancasters waiting to get chopped by 46 MU…

Nearby, a scrapman fly-tipped parts he couldn’t use into a disused quarry in Elgin’s Oak Wood (also known as Quarry Wood, or sometimes Quarrel Wood), like instruments and switches. Literally hundreds of them, mainly from locally scrapped Lancasters, judging by the parts I dug up.
I was able to reconstruct one complete Lancaster starter switch, and it now starts my 1974 Harley-Davidson. So there is slight, but very real chance it is from one of the scrapped Dambusters Lancs!

Very interesting thread Brattacus – sorry about the relics I promised you, but things just got too hectic with my house move.

Thought you might be interested in a snippet of local news I remember as a kid, probably in the mid 1960s.
A Lossiemouth guy had collected a large sweetie jar full of US silver dollars from the beach area around the Beach Bar.
The story suggested it was from a WW2 US ‘pay plane’ which had crashed into the sea on approach…

My first thought was “Why would she want to introduce another child into the world who may be genetically predisposed to cancer?”
Unless of course having his heir would give her financial advantages…

Fast approaching 60, and a little overweight, I think mine might be Norma Snockers!
Hey Stuart – you must remember that old Elgin worthy Geordie Desperate, and Rosie Bottom?

Tory MP Tim Yeo – “This is far too important an issue to allow the Scottish tail to wag the British dog.”
That’s the sort of talk we can’t hear enough of!

Hugh Cornwell cover of the Velvet Underground classic ‘Venus in Furs’…

Next – Sensational Alex Harvey Band version of Jacques Brel’s anti-military song ‘Au Suivant’…

The Stranglers’ ode to their friends the Hells Angels – Nice ‘N’ Sleazy Battersea Park 1978
Take parental care – naked ladies in this one…

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Al, may I ask you a sincere question ? Do you ever feel lonely ?

I do on this forum John, that’s for sure!