I will be adding choice images from my research.
Sorry for the copyright marks, but it was an expensive trip and I hope to publish a book that will hopeful recoup some of the expense.

This is the left wing oil tank area, just outboard of engine nacelle.
It has a rubber scupper or grommet between the access panel and filler neck.
YES, that is 3 bullet holes you see, 2 in rubber and 1 in skin. There is a 4th just out of shot.
(note how much marine residue still exists).
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Very little remains of the right wing, but even the little left has no signs of combat damage. While it might be there, it is very obscure.
The LEFT wing however is absolutely FULL of bullet holes!
I will post another tomorrow (with time).

Now, a question for you wise men.]:
How active was 12th Group over the Deal/channel area, and how often did the Spitfire Mk Ib’s with 20mm’s get out there?

The “Hendon Victoria Station spinner” was a contemporary recovered item,i.e. picked up from the crash site.For many years it was used as a flower pot to hold a display of roses. It rested on the first floor balcony behind Rochester Row police station.
If you look closely at the spinner you will see evidence of several square holes that have been welded over,these were made post crash for drainage.

How do I know this ?

It was my father a serving police officer who recovered it at the time,along with one of the machine guns.The duty relief liberated quiet a few parts,some time was spent in the “stores” room with hammers and a brick trying to straighten the machine gun with a view to firing it along the station yard.Fortunately they failed.Having served his time with the Met, my Father retired,bringing home with him his truncheon and the rose pot.
After several years further service as a rose pot at home our family decided to donate it to Hendon.

The machine gun? well strange to relate that too surfaced after the war,as young collectors my brother and I were offered the same gun and a bullet holed propeller blade .The offer came from the Father of Doctor Chris Jarman.Who according to the story we were told had been working for the M.O.I.instrumental in setting up publicevents which displayed shot down aircraft /parts.

My Father accompanied my brother and I to view the offered artifacts,and was able to point out some of his post crash attempts at straightening the gun.

That is wonderful info, maybe it will help find the true history.

Unfortunately that MG in the case is 100% not from a Do-17z, and it cannot be the one you describe in this letter.
I have seen and handled several MG-15 and MG-17’s in various states of condition, the MG-17 in the case is in fairly good condition, not a crash site example.
Somewhere your dads MG-15 was swapped with this unknown MG-17.

If you look closely at the spinner you will see evidence of several square holes that have been welded over

Unfortunately, there are no square holes.
As part of my training in aircraft maintenance is welding, and welding aluminum is challenging and poor work can start corroding (oxidizing) quickly.
Also, the heat of welding would destroy the paint.
There might have been a small weld in the middle of the “spinner”, but any more and the paint would be gone.
Using spinners as flowerpots is very common.

As to the propeller, this might be from a Do-17, but the Bf-109 and 110 also used similar, so maybe, just maybe its correct.

However, can you explain the strange scratches on it? I have never seen that before.

Thanks!

You’ve lost me there ?

The pictures I posted are from the Cosford Dornier.

I am talking about the other Do-17 and other Luftwaffe parts on the other side of BoB hangar.