And the exhibition in the Trout – a lot of stuff I hadn’t seen before, including some nice stuff relating to Frank Widenham Gooden, allegedly local (though showing no signs of it in the 1911 census), and later killed in the crash of the
prototype SE5. Apologies for quality – flash not always an option in a very tight space!
Part of the plane, picked up by a souvenir hunter:
And a suggestion of which part it is:
Gooden parachuting from a balloon:
Material mostly relating to Hotchkiss, with some Gooden as well.
Finally, as I returned to the memorial, I found a latecomer who’d missed the main ceremony having arrived from Cambridge.
Hope they’re of interest!
Adrian
Some photos of the speeches (something of an oxymoron, I know…) The cattle on the meadow had been rounded up that morning and were pinned in the nearby pound, so the background noise was rather more bucolic than usual!
I think this may have been the flypast – a Puma did also go over, but very high and surely Puma operate out of Benson?
Adrian
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