Yes – a carefully considered spelling in light of a recent encounter outside a park in Arnold!! 😀

The cycle lanes in Cambridge are over grown and a bush is likely to knock you off in the dark,they are shared with pedestrians who basically walk all over the place with headphones in.The cycle lanes are also more likely to have all the debris on them causing punctures.

To be honest the ones that I use round Nottingham are reasonably well maintained and in a good state of repair – yet most other cyclists ignore them and use the roads, some of which are poorly maintained and full of potholes.

Around where I live we also have a large section of ‘duel-use’ cycle / pedestrian tracks as well – sadly when I’m sometimes out walking (on the correct bit of pedestrian track) I always attract the impatient ‘bell-ringing’ brigade as well!!

As for Cambridge, please don’t get me started. I’m not sure what the cycle tracks are like, but the ‘lemmings’ seem to have little sense of road manners or etiquette. My oldest son is now living out near Addenbrooke’s Hospital and even out there some of the road-sense on display by cyclists is lamentable.

The above comments are written as a driver who also rides his bicycle and who appreciates the issues involved with both forms of transportation.

I occasionally cycle for exercise on the wide range of cycle tracks and lanes around Nottingham / Nottinghamshire – but as a car driver why do the ‘cyclists’ still insist on using the roads – even when the cycle lanes run parallel to them? Quite frankly many times they’re just … :stupid:

It’s unusual: removing a cockpit from a production line just so it could be used for a procedures trainer.

That’s supposedly the same ‘back-story’ to the Victor cockpit that’s just been taken on loan by Newark. :confused:

IX(B) Squadron’s Australian personnel provided some interesting material for Bardney, including a quite rare photograph of a Grand Slam Lancaster with some unusual aircraft tail markings. Unfortunately it wasn’t quite good enough quality to make the booklet, but it did feature in the booklet launch presentation, which was based around a theme of ‘connections’ – the Log Book that features on the Bardney page belonged to one of the people featured in the ‘Grand Slam’ photograph!! (Both accessed independently around 30 years apart!!)

Thanks for the additional feedback Despkpilot; however I think that we’ve sorted the location of the former RAF Woodhall Spa memorial i.e. it’s now just down the road at Thorpe Camp.

I was aware of the ‘Upkeep’ remains at the Petwood and I always keep an eye out for it when reversing in and out of the nearby car parking spaces.

You might be interested in an aviation booklet can be downloaded in PDF format by following this link!

The new memorial leaflet is mentioned in this booklet and it will supplement its contents!