More on Lytham – yes, there was a glider. It was hanging from the roof.

You can see it in one of this chap’s pix – scroll down to July 18th

http://www.geoffspages.co.uk/raildiary/roveaway/index.htm

Yes, it’s the Motive Power Museum at Lytham. It opened around 1967, I remember visting and having a ride on the steam train!

The Vampire and Provost were the only aircraft I remember, though there was an excellent large-scale BOAC Comet 1 model in the entrance hall.

It closed in the early 80s, but many of the exhibits remained in the building. It even reopened for a while about 10 years ago, though I think it’s now an engineering works. At least one steam locomotive remains on site.

Might be worth having a once-over on the spelling and grammar of the application. Planning jobsworths can be sticklers for this sort of thing. The phrase “countries heritage” for example (should be country’s heritage). Also all those inverted commas round every term are distracting, and imply sarcasm.

What a shame that Canada couldn’t have drummed up the relatively small amount required to save the last example of the biggest aircraft ever made in Canada, the CC-106 Yukon at Guyaquil. Not as glamorous as a Mosquito, I guess.

>>it will probably be retored to fly and end up in a flying accident in the UK, like the blenheim,or the last flying mosquito.<<

Cheap shot.

The BEA Ford Thames van (Anglia) mentioned in this thread is for sale on Ebay right now. Not cheap, but immaculate condition and it would be nice to see it bought by someone who will keep it in BEA colours.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ford-anglia-van-thames-307e-/270679315819?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3f05be956b

The complete aircraft was recovered. A much-covered story. Google it.