Currently on my walls:

*A large framed print of Brian Petch’s ‘Out of the Sun’ painting, signed by the artist and several Battle of Britain pilots

*A set of 16 WWII propaganda postcards (available in all IWM shops) mounted and framed by myself

*Two large framed photographic prints of the two early mark BBMF Spitfires

*A large set of aviation postcards mounted and framed by myself (includes the Blenheim, Black 6, MH434, PA474, the Shuttleworth Lizzy, the late much missed BAE Mossie alongside Kermit Week’s example)

*A smaller set of aviation postcards as above

*A cartoon from The Times a few years back (to do with the Frogs and B.S.E, and featuring a bull sat in Spitfire cockpit in full flying gear, clearly in a right temper!)

Currently awaiting transferral to my walls (when I move house!)

* Two caption boards from the AAM (no, I didn’t steal them, the old boards were given away to staff when they were replaced a couple of years back…managed to grab the boards for the B-17 and the P-51…the boards have spent the last three years propped up in my hallway much to Mr Ashley’s annoyance :D)

*A substantial collection of black and white prints, mainly of RAF aircraft, which were surplus to requirements and found their way to my spare room mysteriously! 😉

*Three framed poems written by Kev (are you sure you don’t want them back, Kev?)

*A lovely poster commemorating the 80th anniversary of the RAF with a beautiful montage of RAF aircraft from 1917-1997 (need to find a big enough frame for that one

Sure I’ll find more to put up!

Becka

P.S. Moggy and Damien…and anyone else familiar with the Ante Room in the Officers’ Mess…have you seen that beautiful Lysander painting? The one where it’s just taken off, with a Hurricane taxi-ing in the background. I fell in love with that painting when Mr Ashley and I got married there, and would have happily bought it, had it not been for a great big gold streak down the left hand side of the painting, where some idiot has tried to “touch up” the gold frame but got more gold on the painting than on the frame 😡 At £400, I couldn’t quite justify paying that amount of money for a painting that had been effectively ruined 🙁 It’s still for sale now, I wonder if the price will get knocked down when they come to clear the Mess out in June/July?….

The thread title reminds me of that old Smokie song, ‘Alice’…or at least the version they did back in the 90s with Roy Chubby Brown…

“Anna? Who the **** is Anna?” 😀

(No offence meant Anna? ;))

My favourite episode is the one where they go trick-or-treating…the bit with the cattleprod…:D

Hang on a mo, that’s Bottom isn’t it? :confused:

Ashley

😮 at Merlin..wish I still did the polishing for real sometimes, I miss the regular interaction I had with the aircraft. I’m sure there was more than one visitor to Duxford during the summer of 2001 who went home thinking “Duxford doesn’t half employ a load of nutcases..I mean that girl was talking to the aircraft…” 😀

Got a 1st edition of the 1969 hardback book…(almost) ashamed to say that I borrowed it from the university library when I was a student, and then “lost it” deliberately. Cost £25 (standard lost book charge) which I thought was a good price really! 😀

‘Tis a very good read 🙂

The Fighter Collection and OFMC’s ground crew and support staff…who play such a big part in bringing Duxford to life, and making it such a great place to work 🙂

Yes please! 🙂

I have to agree with the comments made regarding 609 at War…it is one of my most treasured books 🙂

I agree also with Steve Young’s comment concerning Under An English Heaven, I bought the book for my Mum for Mother’s Day last year as she enjoys aviation fiction, and when I read Moggy’s positive review of the book I was soon on the ‘phone to Mum asking to borrow it 🙂

Ettrick40…does 609 at War not at least have a list of the contributors of the photos used in the book? Ok this isn’t the same as a specific reference for each photo, but?…

Ashley