Just been looking through Memories of the Lancashire Aircraft Industry, by Ron Freethy, published by Countryside books.
Some interesting first-hand recollections of working at (mainly) Avro, but ultimately you just want to throw the book though the window. Careless picture captioning (mentioned in another post on this thread), not as much as a line about the shadow factory at Speke and its Blenheims and Halifaxes, old men’s erroneous memories going unchallenged or uncorrected, too much about Airbus at Broughton, which ain’t in Lancashire…and so on and so forth. Maybe I’m just getting to be a crabby old pedant as life goes on!
What I’m really reading right now is Armadale, by Wilkie Collins. Nothing whatsoever to do with aviation but it’s great and melodramatic fun.
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