24hrs too late but flicking through Sky channels last night I came across “Gladiators of World War 2” on UKTV History. Programme was about Fighter Command. The Bader flypast film was included together with a variety of other interviews with him and other members of “The Few”. Might be worth checking to see if it will be repeated.

Location

I don’t think the Avro is at Old Warden, I don’t recall those sheds in the 1960s.

I wasn’t sure if you wanted ANY Old Warden early shots or just Mag Men associated ones?

Anyway … here’s a shot from my very first visit, 16 October 1965, Kodak Brownie 127.

Here are a couple of photos of a Stirling (Mk V I believe), don’t know where or when:

Maybe we should Google Earth Jordan looking for the “CV’s”!!!

Looks like Croydon was being used as a Triumph Herald parking lot in that “D.VII” shot!

Many thanks for the info – my first visit to Rollason’s wasn’t until 1967 so the ashes must have been swept away by then.

Begging your pardon, but the movie title in the caption is “Seven Pillars of Wisdom”. I had a look on the IMDB to see if Lawrence of Arabia maybe had that as a working title, but it didn’t.

Yeh – I’m aware of that, I just never heard of a film called “The Seven Pillars of Wisdom”. As it was the title of Lawrence’s autobiography – the original manuscript of which he famously lost on a train – I put 2 + 2 together and assumed it was a working title for David Lean’s epic.

I may be wrong (frequently am!) but they did have a kids adventure playground thingy there for a while – rather like a watered-down army assault course.