Thanks for posting the Sunderland interiors.

I think someone told me it had been used as a night club before being restored – is this true?

Also, good news about the Beaufort. It is really just a shell at present.

DS

Is the location of this ‘funding-unlimited restoration in England’ in the public domain?

DS

Hendon Bomber Hall closed for a function

The Sunderland was closed because the whole of the mezzanine in the BoB hall had to be shut as there were no staff to be deployed up there. I imagine it is our old friend H&S again. We could hear the internal audio tour playing away to itself, as we went around the outside…” and now if you move down…” Still, I leanrt something new, about the internal storage of depth charges that were winched out along the wings before an attack. I had wondered what the holes were for!

I was quite peeved not to be able to get any more than a glimpse of the Bomber Hall. Whilst I think it appropriate to have functions in the museum, it does cause a lot of disruption. I would have been really angry if I had travelled a long way to see it. As it was the hall was open until 12, but I don’t know how long it was closed for after that.

DS

My father did his national service as a radar tech on Lincolns, based at Upwood. He was sent off to help fight the Mau Mau in Kenya. His memory is failing and we cannot find any photos of him at that time, but your psot has lead me to the ‘Ramsey 1940s Weekend’ and RAF Upwood site, which I’ll show him.

Thanks for the post,

DS

Thanks for posting link.

I really must get round to uploading the clips I took on my taxi run a couple of years back. I was on the flight deck and man, those Merlins shake your fillings when they start!

DS

I was taking some (kind) ribaldry, from Andy & the like, about 9 – 12 months ago, for griping about Spitfire boredom & monotony

(well, having been building kits & studying a/c since the late 1960’s – ‘Spitfire’ repetition had got to me by the mid ’70’s & has been with me since:rolleyes:

When I raised a thread about the B.32 Dominator/Ki.44/A.6.M shootdown incident after V.J. day – it ~(pretty much) bombed with about 2 replies (max)

Similar, regarding P.61

Only time I saw some interest on a thread I’d bothered starting, that illicited some Genuinely interesting response & photo’s……….was regarding the
SHORT STIRLING bombing raids of 1948, when they were used on numerous occasions, against the Israeli’s (even in broad Day-light)
Glad I did, as some links & pix on topic were posted (thanks Gent’s !)

I always enjoy reading about DC.6’s & Boeing 707’s on here, plus stuff like the Sea-Vixen & Sea-Hawk – & enjoying the odd banter with Bruce over the old North Weald residents that were scrapped or chopped up !
I think it’s been good recently, anyhow – but there are peaks & troughs.

I’m (eventually) gonna get round to scanning & posting two cracking images that I have, shot’s that I believe are unpublished (& maybe unseen, mostly ?

One is of a Short Stirling, a fantastic image I’d not seen before- at an airfield disposal area, with bowser (perhaps Stradishall ? doubt it’s North Creake or Downham Mkt judging by the surroundings – Looks like a Mk.III )

Was given to me along with two rare images of Snettisham Gunnery range
(8th A.F./1st A.D.) that were in amongst a cache of Snettisham Village & beach area pix – as the previous (elderly) owners had moved to Scotland some years ago……. (just 3 military shot’s)

The other is of a Vickers Wellington (Hercules engined variant – looks like a Mk.X) close up by the nose, with what appears to be fresh distemper, or White paint overall, a crystal-clear private shot, again unseen/unpublished.

Recieved those shots about a week before my 24 year Marriage collapsed (!)
so naturally – got put (metaphorically) on the back-burner !

I’ll scan & post ’em when we’re going thru a ‘barren’ spell & ‘Spitfire-heavy’ !!!

Just a point Moggy –

We’ve got Boulton-Paul Overstrand’s & Sidestrand’s………

Why no ‘Trimmingham’ ? (or Cromer’s !!!!)

How about a thread on ‘Queen-Bee’s (drones) or Hawker Henly’s ???????

I’d like someone to recount the tale of the Hector’s attacking the Nazi’s at Calais in 1940 ……..

Any takers ??????????

Always happy to see pictures of a Stirling.

What is a ‘Spitfire’?:dev2:

DS

There was Fairlop, but that was nearer to Hainault than Chingford.
http://www.ukcoldwar.org.uk/fairlop.htm

I lived in Barkingside as a kid, and we used to go over to Fairlop quite often. The old airfield was put back to farming and a gravel pit some time before that, but I remember seeing old pillboxes on the perimeter and a few intersting ‘mounds’ as we drove past. It became ‘Fairlop Waters’, a risible night spot and water park.

Anyone have any pictures of post-war Fairlop?

DS