And what a great prop to use to prompt your dad to tell you and Joe about some of his experiences as Sgt W S Appleton.

It is a wonderful treasure to have ‘discovered’ and great to know that it will stay in the family.

Lucky you and a big thank you to your dad for his contribution to our freedom.

Tall Boy on the left, Upkeep in the middle, Grand Slam on the right.

Thinking of setting up a new website about the Tornado, I have a good collection of photos and info to add to it . But i was wondering which to use.

I know of http://www.freewebs.com but it limits the size.

Obviously i dont want to spend to much money and just start it as a hobby for now so free would be better.

Does anyone have any recommendations of software/ web host to use ?

I use Freeserve (now Wanadoo). They have two options, one called Site Builder and one called FTP My Site. With Site Builder you don’t have to be a Wanadoo member but you only get 9 pages (doesn’t indicate amount of space permitted but probably not all that much). With FTP My Site you do have to be a member (ie; sign up for a Wandaoo e-mail account) but then you can have 30 MB of free web space which they permit you to have up to 5 web sites on. 30 MB is a pretty good amount of web space to have available.

I build the pages using Adobe Golive 6.0 which is a wysiwyg type programme and I upload them using Terrapin FTP.

I had no previous experience or training before starting to build my websites, just learnt how to do it as I went along. They’re pretty basic as I’ve tried to keep them nice and simple….I also hate pop ups and ads which is something that you tend to get with a few of the free websites but I’ve also avoided them.

Hope some of the above is of help, links below to the sites I’ve done (my hobby)

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/archie_bombercommand/index.html

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/scottish_crashsites/index.html

Good luck and have fun! 🙂

Excellent news. Can you give more info about the museum and when you hope to be open for business? Will look forward to paying a visit.

Cheers

Yes, I remember, and yes I think we should always remember.

My grandfathers two brothers joined the 16th Btn of the Royal Scots on the same day and had consecutive service numbers. They both died on the same day, Saturday 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of Somme. One has a grave in Gordon Dump Cemetery in Ovillers-La Boisselles, the other has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.

Many families lost all their sons during this conflict. On the local war memorial in the small village I live near there are at least six families who lost more than one son during this conflict. Devastating.

Philo, what a terrifying situation to have found yourself in, glad to hear that you are ok again. A similar thing happened to my mother several years ago, but it was bees and not wasps. She now carries an epi-pen (I think that’s the name) around with her all the time. Basically if she ever gets stung again she has to get the pen out and administer the medication in it to herself and then of course seek immediate medical assistance. I believe the pen contains some sort of adrenalin and therefore buys some extra time between being stung and getting help. Might be worth asking your doc about one? Prior to this episode she had been stung plenty by bees (my dad kept hives in the garden) with no apparent effect.

Absolutely agree with Glen, thanks Robbo for sharing those fantastic photographs of W1048, really appreciate it. It’s been a while since I’ve visited Hendon and I don’t know when I’ll have the chance to do so again so they are really special.