🙂 Some good news at last 🙂

Indeed it is.
I recieved my notification that this was the case a few weeks ago, dated the 28th September, but i’m always a little sceptical thinking that knowing how slippery they are, the developer will have some other ‘trick’ up their sleeve which will lead you into a false sense of security and then WALLOP!!!!

Bomberboy

This is all great news!!!
I just wish some of it was over this side of the pond.

Pagen,

What is all this nonsense about?

All I did was question one thing, because the information I have, did not show what was being described as an extra over blister hanger, but which according to my now listed sources of information, told me it was a cannon butts which looked to be covered over with the structure in question…….nothing more!

There is reallly no need for you to throw all your toys out of your pram for that and deny the forum your discussion points which is exactly what it should be.
You, like me, are not the be all and end all, it’s not your forum, it’s everybodies forum and if somebody questions something which you don’t like, then discuss it, not go about it as I feel you have done to me almost from the word go and either put them down or not acknowledge their contribution or both.

I have thus far accused you of nothing other than this, but you seem to want to keep putting words into mine and possibly others mouths, to make out I have accused you of a number of things, which I have not!!!
Then you accuse me of Trolling! Well that was just plain silly!

I have gathered a considerable amount of stuff on St Eval, (possibly more than most), as I have a vested interest because of my father, but even with this you even then seem to play all of that as though it was not really worth anything, other than to use it in order that I call you a liar. That’s low! 🙁

Yes we are strangers, but how would I know who you do or don’t know?
I did not mention either Nick B or Dr Strangelove directly in our discussion and so I see no point for adding their names and your ‘relationship’ with them in our deliberations now, when I don’t know them!

Anyway, other than I ask you for the benefit of others on here to reconsider your statement and continue posting information on this forum, i’m not going to add anything further.
I am always happy to learn from others, even though it may give rise to ‘challenging questions’ in the process which I hope you should welcome.

Once again, thank you for your time

Bomberboy

Erm pardon me, you spent several posts and clipped quotes talking absolute guff and trying to prove what others said wrong.
You even refused to believe, in the face of evidence, that there was even a blister hangar in the location being asked about!

Pagen, I’m sorry you feel aggreived, but I would appreciate your pointing out exactly what and where I said was, as you put it so elequently “talking absolute guff”. (sorry for the clipped quote by the way). 😉
Putting words into peoples mouths or just cutting them down, is not the way to discuss things, which is all that I initially saw this as in order to try and help the initial poster with the best information I had to hand.

I did not deny that there was a hanger per-se, as for a start there is clearly something resembling one in the picture so where did I deny that, but it was just that according to my sources, it was a covered cannon butts and not a extra over blister hanger separated from the cannon butts as you labelled it.

Why does the fact that someone challenges your comments mean that they don’t know anything and that you are absolutely correct as you indicated in a post where you “absolutely assured me”?

The sources I have are;

Airfield Focus 7 for St Eval
My Life with St Eval by Roy Dunstan
The Memories Linger on (A collection of reminiscences of wartime St Eval by Jean Shapland
A four part article The saga of St Eval from Westwings.
A couple of airfield maps one dated I believe post war and one marked confidential and dated 20th October 1940.
A scan of the airfield p140 of Britains Military Airfields.
Finally a scanned newspaper article from Thurs 11th Jan 2000 showing a 1940 aerial photo, but this does look similar to one in Jean Shaplands book which is dated as 1943.

The point of all this, is that not one of them show what you have described, so with all this info, why would I, or anyone else for that matter, just accept a strangers word, i’m sure you would do exactly the same given the same scenario.
That being said, you then went onto state that it was shown as building 120 blah blah on the AM plans that you have and edited the airfield layout to show this accordingly.
I believe this is what you must describe as “You even refused to believe, in the face of evidence,”
What evidence?
A scan of the actual AM plan showing this area might have helped right then?
Just saying it and editing the very layout drawing that I had eluded to, is not what I call ‘the face of evidence’ and lord knows why anyone else should.
The flash link i considered dubious for the reasons I gave, to which you replied “Please don’t advise me” was your initial posted statement which you then removed (edited).
At this point however I had decided to say no more on the type of building, which if you read the thread carefully, you will see that this is the case.

There is a very good chance however that I will meet St Eval station personnel again and it will be something that I will try and ask for myself in detail.

I had already by then however, reassessed and then commented on the particular location where I believed that the photo had been taken from, before anyone else had and this was the westerly T2 (post #13).
So what is the problem with that?
Other than perhaps to grudingly acknowledge that this was the fact!

I’m not fussed what your considerations towards me are, but I do not accept belittling or disparaging comments from the likes of you or anyone else like you, where you have done your best to make out that I add nothing.
You don’t know me and you know jack about me!

Now let me assure you, if I know little or nothing about something in particular or don’t have the relevant reference material to hand, I post nothing.

Oh and one last thing, my dad was stationed there as flying crew in 1944 and I don’t ever recall him mentioning what you described.

Thank you for your time.

Bomberboy

How many of our intrepid forum members would actually take a Mosquito ride?

Abso-bloomin-lutely

I have a hunch a significant number would refuse out of fear…:D

Absolutely not!!!

I’m sure I caught a glimpse of a mossie starboard airscrew spinner at one point.
I spose it could have been a merlin engined beaufighter?

This film has been played on a screen in either the cabinet war rooms or dover castle restaurant area I believe, I just can’t remember which one.

Bomberboy

304 Squadron, stationed at St Eval March – July 1945

It states that they left the airfield early in July, so it is likely that this photo was taken very shortly before they departed.

Bomberboy