They are/were at best ‘loosely connected by a long, steel-type structure that grew up over the years. The were never originally connected. The ‘middle-bit’ is in very poor condition.

Building consisted of steel columns with iron girder roof supports, infilled with common London Brick. Asbestos roof. Pretty much all built, in it’s original form, around the same time

The Aerodrome end facade was built to provide an impressive aspect when viwed from that end. The main offices/enquiry booth/drawing offices were built between there and the Watchtower, from where this photograph was taken.
Many alterations were made to the buildings during their life; it did become the Pageant Club and Station Theatre at one point, definately not the original use!

Where exactly did anybody mention photography? Or the lighting in the Bomber Hall for that matter?

The lighting in the B-of-B Hall at Hendon get mentioned a lot because it is bad, not because anybody has a fixation.

The chap with the photographs mentioned the lighting. And the Bomber hall was mentioned because that’s where one of the photographs was taken.

Moggy says it all really….

“Anything used/borrowed credited to the photographer”

As you are, presumably, not giving these books away, you may get a better response if you offer payment.

Like this for example…

re the Culbin Forest Warwick….

In the mid 80’s a friend and I cycled from Elgin to Culbin (this in the days of Strumney Archer 3 speed boxes!) along the ‘killer’ A96 to see what we could find.
We had absolutely NO idea where the plane might be, but the CO of our ATC squadron had been there and had picked up a Very pistol from the wreck. That was enough for us and off we went. I still remember the fruitless slog to this day.

Incidentally, the Culbin sands area, on which the forest stands, was used as a range for practice attacks before D-Day…several thousand rockets were fired onto it and a lot of them never went off. Definately NOT a place to go randomly digging about and hauling up lumps of metal.

Couldn’t agree more. Some jokes tend to wear a bit thin though.

“There are already reproductions at the RAFM – the Pup…”

shurely shome mishtake…?

Built by Sopwith Aviation Co at Kingston upon Thames, but delivered from Brooklands. One of a batch of 20 aircraft ordered under contractors number C.P.119901/16, serials N5180 to N5199, with 80 HP Le Rhone rotary engine. One of a total of 64 Pups built in 1916.

“….the completed aircraft is supposedly 60-70% original, or at least contemporary, components. In 1973 it was accepted by the CAA as genuine only after they received a letter from Sir Thomas Sopwith to this effect.”

If you allow development on Green Belt land just because there is already development there, of whatever size and for whatever reason, then very soon you will end up with no green belt at all.