Just one or two pics…

What a shame that the weather was so bad… my camera ended up getting so wet that I had to take some of these with a fogged viewfinder and have run some of them them through Photoshop to make them vaguely presentable, hence the noise on the pic! The others, I have not had time to do anything with yet…. I lasted until the Lightning went but was too wet to continue after that!

Paul

Well, when I was home last year I rode there from Wigan on my bike and spoke to the jobsworth on the gate at ‘A’ site to see if I could go around and take some photos. He said no and gave me some pony about having to write to English partnerships for permission. If I were you, I would go down the road by the old perminter fence, bypass the gate and follow the road around to what seems like a dead end. Over where the road is blocked you can climb over and get access to ‘E’ site without any hassles. If anyone hassles you, just leave the site. They might try and say they can do you for trespass but they can’t. As long as you don’t steal or break anything, they can’t do anything to you but ask you to leave the site. I think the murals are in the blister hangers but they are always locked and there is no way to get access to them. When we were younger we walked right up onto the roof of one of the hangers to have a look (it’s solid concrete!) and promptly got asked to leave by the security who saw our photo flashes!

There is an air raid shelter near there also. That is the part of the airbase where a lot of the B17’s e.t.c were cut up… I bet there is allsorts undeneath the surface!

I can assure you that it is still there. I drive past it almost every week!

I think they are saving it as they have built all around it and have left it alone.

Paul.

It was’nt a V1. I am a Police officer and work in the communications site that covers this area and was on duty on this particular day. When the EOD people got there, it turned out in fact to be an immersion heater! :p They were’nt very impressed apparently.

Poor, sensational reporting on the part of the BBC again!

Paul

If I remeber correctly, Dieter Dengler sadly died a few years ago.

Just my opinion but having read these books, they appear to be quite badly researched with various stories based mainly on third party heresay and the conclusions in some cases, pure speculation on the part of the author without any further investigation on what ‘it’ might have been ever taking place, the implication often being that this is totally unneccesary: CASE CLOSED!

Perhaps I’m missing the point but I always prefer books about the paranormal (or anything for that matter) to go into far more detail and not be along the lines of:

‘I was told by a close friend that her old friend, WRAF officer ***** was alone in the control tower one day in the early 1980’s at Scampton and fleetingly saw a black dog out of the corner of her eye on the harstanding’

Then, usually a lot of regurgitated waffle and the assertion that there were definately no dogs on the base at that time (or similar assertion depending on the story) and then the conclusion (again to be altered to suit the story) along the lines of:

‘It must be Guy Gibsons dog as it was two weeks short of the anniversary of the dams raid, quite close to the anniversary of Guy Gibsons death and is believed to be around the anniversary of the time that the dog also died’

I’m not suggesting the stories proffered by Mr Barrymore-Halfpenny and his witnesses are’nt true or are simply made up, I’m stating that I just find it annoying that there is a lot of scope for a cracking set of well researched books here which appears to have been wasted. If I had the time, I would love to have a go myself but alas, don’t have any time to spare for the forseeable future due to work commitments e.t.c.

What is the story with the Hunters though?

I usually just prefer to browse here these days and prefer not to voice my opinion as a rule but that is OUTRAGEOUS!