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June 30, 2006 at 5:16 pm in reply to: Time Team digging a Zeppelin? #1314430

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😀 😀 😀 you mean ‘stuff’ that they’ve no idea what it is! as mentionned above, yes the ‘bullet’ does sound a bit suspicious as you’d have thourght it would’ve either gone through or be damaged from impact.. Neil

The very same, Neil! And yes, an undamaged bullet sounds suspicious to me. I’d like to see the reports from that night of who shot at it with what.

By the way, trivia fans, as L33 lay blazing on the ground, a woman nearby was being delivered of a baby girl whom they christened… Zeppelina!

Doubt me?

http://www.essex.police.uk/offbeat/o_mu_20.php 😀

Adrian

June 30, 2006 at 4:07 pm in reply to: Time Team digging a Zeppelin? #1314495

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GGRRROOOOAAAAANNNN!

It is possible, of course, if it really is a British bullet that it was fired at extreme range and was stopped by the gas bags. Or even that it got there in an entirely independent incident. I’d be a bit dubious about that one. Still, there shouldn’t be too many “ritual objects” found…

Adrian

June 30, 2006 at 12:43 pm in reply to: This made me smile. #1315103

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And me! 😀 😀

Which humorist spotted the potential there, I wonder?

Adrian

June 29, 2006 at 4:11 pm in reply to: Time Team digging a Zeppelin? #1316354

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Timewatch – BBC

Rachel Dane was plugging it on BBC Look East yesterday.

Don’t forget that this is just the archaeology on site, the programme may not be out for several months.

Time Team( Channel 4) and similar can typically be six to nine months.

Mark

Aha, some definitive answers! THank you, Mark. Yes, you are quite right about the lead time – Baldrick and his chums start digging about the second week in March (when it is still flippin’ cold!), and the series must run on TV until nearly then – so you are looking at up to a year before it is shown. Haven’t a clue about Timewatch. However I hope they do a better job than the recent headless Romans one – half an hour of great stuff was puuuulled out to a tedious hour… 😡

Adrian

June 29, 2006 at 3:54 pm in reply to: Time Team digging a Zeppelin? #1316361

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If we had we’d have posted it…

June 29, 2006 at 1:53 pm in reply to: Time Team digging a Zeppelin? #1316563

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Tried it, can’t find a thing, nor on Anglia or Time team, bit of a mystery.

Anyone else not see anything either? I’m on a temporary PC here, and can’t get the blessed link to Look East to open…

Adrian

June 29, 2006 at 12:43 pm in reply to: Time Team digging a Zeppelin? #1316798

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GROAN!

Adrian

(will try to get Look East over the PC if I get a mo this arvo)

June 29, 2006 at 12:31 pm in reply to: Time Team digging a Zeppelin? #1316806

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‘Time Team’?

Methinks BBC ‘Timewatch’. Possibly only Eastern region.

Mark

Good question, Mark. The original message – well, you’ve read it above. There was supposedly a piece in yesterday’s East Anglian Daily Times according to my parents but I can’t find it on their online version. No doubt we shall see…

Adrian

June 28, 2006 at 10:42 am in reply to: British Classics line up at Duxford #1318484

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I’m with Roy on this – I’d have wet myself if I’d seen it!

So, you think we should have seen an awesome ine-up of Avro aircraft instead of what was actually put out? What did YOU do last to please fellow aviation enthusiasts, and how unchuffed were they by YOUR efforts?

(puts satanic horsehair wig on, stands back) :diablo:

Adrian

June 28, 2006 at 9:24 am in reply to: Thames Fort Fire #1318668

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Adrian – is that the one regarding Cold War defences? If it is, it’s currently on the wish list – if not, tell me more before I hoof it of to the CBA web site!

Chris

Chris,

This is largely WW2 – not sure as I don’t have a CBA booklist to hand where the Cold War one is. I was expecting a scholarly tome on the different sorts of fortification and where and why you’d site them and so on – in fact it is a series of surveys of surviving defence sites and schemes. I’m still not sure which of the two would be better – but even if you buy one and aren’t interested, you’ll never be short of a doorstop – it’s a whopper!

Good luck with the CBA website – it’s a bit clunky!

Adrian

June 28, 2006 at 9:14 am in reply to: London Science Museum – Aviation #1318691

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Plus, of course, a genuine Battle of Britain veteran Hurricane – L1592 (?), damaged in a forced landing at Croydon on 18 August 1940.

Oh, and a Pterodactyl! Now that really is a rare beast!

By the way, mate, you may not be much of a photographer, but that hasn’t ever stopped anyone else here. One of the most exciting things I ever saw here was a piccie of K5054 snapped by someone’s dad with their Box Brownie on its first public outing… A fascinating piece of history, and a terrible photo to boot.

Adrian

June 27, 2006 at 3:39 pm in reply to: British Classics line up at Duxford #1319726

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The Ferguson tractor ain’t bad either! :diablo:
(just kidding – nice, but overshadowed by awesome company!)

WOW – wish I’d seen that! I think that answers a few gripes in another thread very nicely!

Adrian

June 27, 2006 at 2:44 pm in reply to: Thames Fort Fire #1319761

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Do you thinks it’s possible that someone, somewhere has a chart or record of these things? You’ve started me thinking now (a rare occurance, reading some of my other posts), there must be a record somewhere. I don’t know how comprehensive the English Heritage records are and whether they extend to (or include) previously extant structures, giving an overall picture of defensive devices? The ‘Defence of Britain’ project of a few years ago was a broad-brushed attempt to record structures, principally dating from WW2 (IIRC – I haven’t read the paperwork for a while) and may well include edifices such as off-shore fortifications. I have a contact at Leeds Met Uni who has had dealings with EH (albeit regarding WW2 airfields in Yorkshire) but he may have some ideas/further contacts. I could try him if you like and look into it.

Chris

Chris,

The Council for British Archaeology have recently produced a hefty tome on the defence of Britain, but this does not cover offshore fortifications. Probably the best mapping for these would be the Admiralty charts!

IIRC Knock John kept its 6″ guns into the 1990s before they were recovered for a museum. However after that long in salt air I dread to think what state they were in!

ADrian

June 27, 2006 at 12:35 pm in reply to: Thames Fort Fire #1319981

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Do you want anymore, about Cortinas and stuff!!!!!!!

I think not Pete, or our backsides will be kicked most firmly! 😀

Adrian
(wasn’t there a thread about a burning fort going on round here somewhere?)

June 27, 2006 at 9:36 am in reply to: Thames Fort Fire #1320145

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plus a very ‘up for it’ married slapper who’s anybodies, but I won’t go any further down THAT path.

Pity my Essex geography is good enough that I know if she’s from Canvey she can’t be Ian Dury’s “kindly Charmaine Chagg from Shoeburyness”…

On three, after me, 1 – 2 – 3 – ‘Ullo, I’m from Essex, in case you couldn’t tell”…

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