Fascinating story TwinOtter. Interesting to note that oil was transported to Pumpherston to be refined-that refinery was part of the shale oil industry here.

It is indeed a fascinating story – one of their key volunteers is the proud recipient of a ‘Goldfish Badge’; I once spent nearly 30 minutes trying to guess the aircraft that he escaped from to use his life-raft. Eventually he told me it was awarded for escaping from an oil rig incident in the North Sea during the 1960s. A wonderful character! 🙂

Certainly not forgotten – please see post #20; also the Taylor Monoplane was mentioned in #89.

Not 100% certain that the B(I)8 qualifies under the original criteria; nor indeed would the Meteor FR9 test bed!! :eagerness:

The Desford comments in #117 also add an unknown (to me at least) aspect to my dealings with the various Museum Departments in the 1990s!!

Great idea Moggy, do you think that it would wash tomorrow; we have some excavation work to do to fix a water leak – potential visitors on Thursday 16th January please note!! 😉

With NAM it’s Stirling fuselages forming the culvert (JL please don’t panic again!)

Go for it, what’s a few earth tremors between friends – we get them round here a regular basis http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-25679241