Whilst we’re on the subject, the Mosquitos that vied for my attention with Ms Rigg in an episode of The Avengers

em…I’ve got a Jag nose wheel door that’s been zaped ‘http://www.jesuslovesporn.com‘ …….with a rather unsuitable drawing of….some activity

According to “Boulton Paul Aircraft” by Alec Brew they used to build all sorts of prefabs pre-WW1 at Rose Lane in the center of Norwich. During WW1 B&P were invited to produce aircraft including FE2s and Camels so set up another factory at Heartsease and converted the Rose lane plant for aircraft production, they later opened a plant at Riverside when Rose Lane became too cramped. I think the Camel in Hendon is a B&P produced model. The RFC had a few units that passed through Heartsease and the place became civil areodrome post war. During WW2 it was used as a POW camp.

The Heartsease estate was built on the aerodrome site (which was the old cavalry ground) As others have said part of the the old B&P works still exist on the industrial estate and if you go into town the brass reliefs on the door of city hall show a worker making an aeroengine – done in the same year B&P moved to the midlands!

Great to see Freddy er….I mean Jack flying again, but it bins out after 24 secs – am I being thick?

But as they say history is written by the victor*.

which is a quote frequently used by Holocaust deniers and modern day Nazi-sympathizers to somehow invalidate the mound of evidence that proves the Nazi regime in Germany 1933-45 was an evil only matched or exceeded by Stalin’s Soviet Union and in Communist China

No room for maneuver there, no sitting on the fence, no ‘faults on both sides’ wishy-washy pseudo-intellectualism, the Nazis were evil – no mitigation. Don’t get me started on the SS re-enactors and the ‘cool’ factor.

* I’m not saying QldSpitty falls into this category

Arthur I suggest you read Fredrick Taylor’s Dresden – Tuesday 13 February 1945 before supporting the kind of reversionary stuff David Irving would be proud of:

According to the 1944 handbook of the German Army High Command’s Weapon Office , the city of Dresden contained 127 factories that had been allocated three letter manafacturing codes

Also know as Waffen amt codes, and according to the Dresden City Museum it was a very incomplete list. So Dresden was a city heavily involved in the war effort and a major transport node for the eastern front

Not quite the picture if the innocent martyr city some would have you believe is it?