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  • April 21, 2011 at 9:31 am in reply to: HP42 crash in Berkshire?? #1076910
    adrian_gray
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    [photo geek hat on]
    Measure up the print – is it approximately 6cm by 4.5cm? If so it’s a contact print from a half-frame negative on 120 film, and you’re looking at it sideways. Even if it isn’t (you could get the kit for enlarging your own stuff at home by about 1900, so it might be an enlargement, though I’d bet on a contact print), I still think you’ve got a film format where the long axis of the negative is vertical – the same for a 127 print would probably be 4x3cm – and you’re looking at it sideways.
    [/photo geek hat on]

    I’m 99% certain John Ac has got it.

    Adrian

    April 18, 2011 at 7:25 pm in reply to: Horsa Gliders Into Homes #1080159
    adrian_gray
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    Yes, I’d very much like to see them too, Ian!

    Sounds like Horsas are your thing – If you search for “Sampford”, sooner or later you will find some pictures of them landing, and possibly even a link to one bending a lorry rather badly!

    Adrian

    March 31, 2011 at 4:35 pm in reply to: Roger Whittaker the pilot. #414766
    adrian_gray
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    Didn’t he have a Citation as well at some point, and fly from (and live in the vicinity of) Audley End as well (not with the Citation though..)?

    At one point he owned the (then) Red Lion Inn in Stambourne, Essex, which is 15 miles or so from AA. I guess late 1970s, early 1980s – certainly I was but an anklebiter then.

    Adrian

    March 18, 2011 at 3:52 pm in reply to: Lancaster with Underslung Armoured Car #1087691
    adrian_gray
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    It’s not a Halifax either, as whatever it is is low wing.

    There’s an air-drop jeep at Duxford and I’ve spoken to a gentleman who dropped them at Great Sampford.

    Adrian

    March 18, 2011 at 3:19 pm in reply to: Be2 Replica 347 update #1087694
    adrian_gray
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    Keep us posted – we’d love to come up to Sywell and see her!

    Adrian

    March 18, 2011 at 1:54 pm in reply to: Be2 Replica 347 update #1087712
    adrian_gray
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    She’s looking very good – when will we see wind beneath her wings (assuming the restoration team have been on a low fibre diet, of course)?

    Adrian

    March 16, 2011 at 11:47 am in reply to: Tracking down ex-Service aircrew ? Writing a book #1088211
    adrian_gray
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    I think you might have competition, merkle!

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-12749704

    Adrian

    March 14, 2011 at 4:52 pm in reply to: Where is this? #1089088
    adrian_gray
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    I believe this is your coat, sir…

    March 14, 2011 at 4:06 pm in reply to: Where is this? #1089158
    adrian_gray
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    Sorry – should have made myself clearer. The second photo is definitely Great Dunmow.

    Adrian

    March 14, 2011 at 3:02 pm in reply to: Where is this? #1089202
    adrian_gray
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    Definitely Easton Lodge, on the north side of Great Dunmow. Here’s a modern pic of the water tower: http://www.flickr.com/photos/architec/2408211264/

    Possibly visible here – to the east of Easton Lodge itself:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Great_Dunmow

    I’d like to claim genius at these things. Sadly, it was a lucky guess based on the existence of a brick water tower and some fancy estate buildings!

    Adrian

    March 14, 2011 at 11:25 am in reply to: Where is this? #1089376
    adrian_gray
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    The gently rolling downland in the first picture looks very much like the countryside around Thruxton to me – windsock pole looks like RAF pattern as well, though I’m no expert. If I were to guess, even without the possibility of it being Thruxton, I’d say somewhere on the downlands of Hampshire or Wiltshire.

    Could the second one be at Great Dunmow? I can’t find a picture of the Easton Lodge water tower to hand, but there are other buildings elsewhere on the estate that look very much like those in the background.

    Adrian

    March 2, 2011 at 9:59 am in reply to: Flt Lt K.G. Hodson #1102099
    adrian_gray
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    The London Gazette – hence the expression “gazetted” – is online here:

    http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/

    Perhaps Doug will give some search tips – I know the WW1 medal searches could be fairly awkward, and required some inventive thought sometimes, but I’ve never looked for WW2 information – the OCR might handle those better.

    Adrian

    March 1, 2011 at 4:00 pm in reply to: Mystery spinner #1102655
    adrian_gray
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    They would be ideal for a statue of Jane Russell…

    I’ll get my coat.

    Adrian

    February 26, 2011 at 10:10 am in reply to: Spitfire location check. #1105280
    adrian_gray
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    For what it’s worth, the date can’t be before August 1962, when the BMC ADO16 (better known as the Austin/Morris 1100/1300 was launched) – there’s one behind the cowling. I must confess that I was relying on the Ford Consul Classic in front of the windscreen for a date, which is why I’ve been googling cars…

    Adrian

    February 23, 2011 at 9:27 am in reply to: Info sought on Essex F-100 Super Sabre incidents. #1109148
    adrian_gray
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    I’d agree with that – there’s a building in the top corner of the field that coincides with one (sewage pumping station, I think) on the sketch plan of the site.

    Could probably check which houses are 1930s (the location and layout in the photo says late 1930s council houses to me), or at least of likely state in style, with Street View, but I think you’ve nailed it.

    Adrian

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