Bags I the field where the Pole get’s the pitchfork – seeing as it’s out the back of the village my family have lived in since the year dot!

If you look carefuly there is apparently an incongruous agricultural item in the background apparently, though I forget what. Possibly a stack of bales – anyway, not something that would have been there in 1940!

adrian (rustic pedant)

Ooooooooooh, I feel all faint with all these serious Aeroheads round me! (nearly said airheads… ooops!).

Er… down at the bottom edge of involvement in this forum I’ll be planting veg on my WW1 airfield allotment, finding a day free to take my girlfriend, a Box Brownie and a few rolls of 120 to Old Warden for some serious Old Photography and… and… oh fiddle, I know there was another thing! Ah well….

Adrian
(oh I know! I’m waiting to find out about the Mk1 Hurricane rebuilt following a crash from great height in 1940! – V7497)

Reminds me of the summer I spent at Witzenhausen on the edge of the Harz mountains. The airfield was halfway up a hill, and the only way out of the surrounding hills was via a pass – so you used to see gliders being towed DOWNWARDS to get through the pass! Quite scary the first few times!

Adrian

If I recall rightly (a rare event!) there are pictures in one of the Blitz Then & Now/BoB T&N series of “screamers” made from old bayonet scabbards fitted to the tailfins of German bombs. Imagine a hole like that in an organ pipe cut in a knife scabbard, and you’re about there. Anyone got one of those books to hand? I suspect that the “Screamer Whistles” would be something similar.

Adrian

Ah yes, I remember finding the Eagle by wandering past the end of Benet Street one day!

As a scientist, I wanted to go to see where Watson and Crick did all their serious thinking when they were working out DNA. The ceiling came as a welcome surprise!
Then we turned out and popped across the road to the church to look at the book sale… Turns out the Churchwarden of St Benet’s once upon a time was one Fabian Steadman, the guy credited with inventing change ringing on english church bells…So we had a quick pull on the old strings.

So as a real-ale drinking scientist & aircraft enthusiast who rings church bells it was quite a day! (AND I had my girlfriend with me!)

Adrian

No urban myth (although allegedly not entirely thier fault) and neither is the F-111 at Cambridge, the F-16s at Kenley or several others!

Melv

Something to do with dropping a bomb into the wrong pickle barrel from 30,000 feet?

Adrian
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