bazv, Brilliant!
There should be more like him. But I suspect that all the nausea of the modern world (Elf & Safety, etc, etc) has stopped all that sort of thing. Reading that Obit made my afternoon!! Worth a guinea a minute!!
Graham, sorry if this thread has been semi-hijacked – but it was worth it!!
Resmoroh

“What the . . . . . . . . “

Moggy is right! There is more in this than meets the eye. The police, according to one report (in the Telegraph), ‘found’ the weapon whilst searching the property for the woman’s son John. Why were they searching? – and under a bed? I suspect that the woman exchanged, possibly heated, words with the Constabules. Did she have “previous”?
This was not about “possession of an unlicenced weapon” (or whatever the offence is/was). It is more likely to be about “ruffled feathers” on the part of the Polis.
HTH
Resmoroh

pagen01,
Totally, and utterly, briliiant!! There could be the makings of a long-running comedy series here!! Upsidedown rooks will, clearly, negate all the bird-strike data!! Now look what you’ve done?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Resmoroh

Binbrook74,
Have you tried: http://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm?l. You can get OS NGR and Lat/Lon. I find it very good.
HTH
Resmoroh

avion ancien, Hi,
You and I should confer on “ramblings” and “failing memories”!!!!!
If my memory serves me right there were three main PLUTO “send” sites in UK, all connected to the main pipe-line system. There were two (one on the Isle of Wight, I think, and another a bit east of there) which terminated in Normandy and were directly in support of D-Day (and shortly thereafter). There was (again, my failing memory, I’m afraid) a third somewhere along the Sussex/Kent coast which terminated somewhere in the Pas de Calais and was (presumably) the main supply line once Normandy had been liberated.
I regret I have no knowledge of the diameter(s) of these pipes, and/or the pressures used to deliver the fuels (both PLUTO, and on mainland UK) from which one can get some ideas of the tonnages shifted – but they were quite considerable (and somebody will know!!). Onward transport of the fuel from the arrival (in France) to the user was (again, presumably) by the famous “Red Ball Express” road convoys. Pipe-lines may have been laid – I have no knowledge.
The technique has not been forgotten. There are no port facilities on Ascension. The vast amounts of aviation fuel required for Op CORPORATE arrived in a tanker which moored off-shore. A pipe-line was constructed (in no time flat!!) from a moored bouy to the beach, and from thence up to the Wideawake airfield. Same system as on D-Day!!!
HTH
Resmoroh

austernj673, Hi,
The guys who know all about this sort of thing are over on the AiX Forum. When I was asking about my nearest bulk fuel store someone on that Forum sent me a map with all the main pipe-lines on it, but I can’t find it now!!
Fly a kite on AiX! But the subject may be more sensitive today than it was in WW2!!
HTH
Resmoroh

Blue_2, Hi,
I used “in London” in order to speed up the process and not to involve DG RAFM in excessive travel costs (which will, almost eventually, be printed in The Daily Telegraph!!!)
Those (aviation) museums outside London should also be on his list. But he must be ruthless! He must say “This museum good – we will incorporate some of their ideas into Hendon.”, or, alternatively, he has to say “This museum is not doing ‘The Bizz’, we will NOT be taking their ideas forward”.
But – at the end of the day – aviation museums (be they big, or be they small) are only as good as the folk who run (and organise) them.
“People” are the key – whether they flew the airframes, or now just conduct visitors, or make the tea, or just add the figures up at the end of the week/season, or just empty, and clean, the drip-trays under The Only Existing Wonder Bomber at Little Snoring Aviation Museum!
Should DG RAFM not be pushing for some official educational recognition of the skills required to run/organise/clean a provincial (or national) aviation museum??? Everbody wants ‘Qualifications’. Should there not be one for Aviation Museums?
Just a thought.
Resmoroh