I’d hazard a guess that the leading ship of the three in the first photo is HMS Belfast or HMS Edinburgh. The aft mast being ahead of the after funnel suggests this.
The ship in the bottom photo is a Dido class for sure.
Geoff.
Victorian cranberry glass fruit bowl….cheap as chips
To Anna
‘You’re too shy shy’
fourthed
Heston
Lancaster Gate
any chance of some please pics Geoff? 🙂
Here they are. The colour side view is by Mark Postlethwaite & the photo is credited to ‘A.S. Wilson’.
Geoff.
West Wallaby Street
I’ll echo Robbo’s comments on this event.
One of these days, when my six numbers come up, I’ll buy a house halfway between Duxford, Old Warden and Hendon, with good public transport access to all three, and plenty of bedrooms for visiting forum friends to stay.
Geoff.
I’ve phoned Hendon to say we wont be able to perform the display of Morris Dancing in the car park after all. They ‘sounded’ disappointed, but I’m sure I heard a few cheers in the background.
This wasn’t meant to be a ‘Forum meet’ as such, it’s just that since I’m going on Saturday anyway I thought I’d mention it on here. I didn’t want to post any photos on here Saturday evening, only to have someone say ‘I was there too’ or ‘Why didn’t you say you were going, I would have come too.’ Also from previous experience at Hendon & Duxford, it’s always much more enjoyable going around any museum with a group of like-minded friends.
What about a meet at Brooklands sometime in late November/early December? I’ve long wanted to go there, it’s one museum I can get to fairly easily by train (along with Hendon), and a meet would be the incentive to actually make the trip. What say you?
Anyway, no hard feelings over the no-shows. :p
Geoff.
In ‘Royal Air Force Thunderbolts’ by Geoff Thomas (AIR Research Publications) there is a b&w photo of this aircraft with the following caption;-
‘KJ348 (44-20508). This P-47D-30-RE, one of five delivered to Alexandria in October 1944 became the personal aircraft of the Chief Instructor at 73 OTU, Fayid. Painted black with ‘silver’ [sic] cowling and ‘lightning flash’, this Thunderbolt retained standard roundels outlined in yellow under the wings’ The photo is credited to ‘A.S. Wilson’.
There is a colour side view of the same aircraft on the back cover which also shows the areas which are red on your side view, as being silver.
Geoff
Gas Factory Junction
Damn it Steve…I was banking on at least your good self turning up.
I’ll just have to hope for a late rush, otherwise it’ll make the ‘group photo’ interesting!
Billy-no-mates
Stanmore
Mr von Perthes gets an extra point for correcting the spelling of “Aresenal” (sic) before anyone noticed!!
Bravo! No one will ever know!
Snigger. :diablo:
😮 Just you wait ’till I’m next at Duxford :p
Now where’s my leather paddle?? 😮 :diablo: