Nice story for you @Didley Squat ... WW2 gunner's son welcomes recovery of crashed bomber By Nic Rigby BBC News Online 7 hours ago please log in to view this image Sgt Leonard Shrubsall was part of the seven man crew of a Short Stirling Bomber The son of a crew member of a World War Two bomber that crashed into a lake in the Netherlands has welcomed the Dutch government operation to lift it. The Short Stirling Bomber, based at RAF Downham Market in Norfolk, was lost returning from a 1943 raid on Germany. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-54007213
Iron Workers from New York Local 40 and PANYNJ moving a section of the World Trade Center antenna into place. Photographed 1,650 feet above the streets of New York and 350 feet above the North Tower of the World Trade Center. These images of the erection of the antenna atop the North Tower of the original World Trade Center in 1979 were taken by Peter B. Kaplan, the fearless photographer who specializes in heights and construction views. The construction workers who erected the 360-foot antenna atop the WTC sometimes work above the clouds: one of Kaplan’s photographs captures the tops of the Woolworth and Empire State as the true “cloud piercers.” The original twin towers of the World Trade Center were flat-topped, with slightly different heights. The North Tower, the first to be completed, in 1971, was the taller of the two at 1,368 feet, so remained the world’s tallest building even after the South Tower was completed at 1,362 feet in 1973. Both were surpassed by the Sears Tower in 1974 at 1,451 feet.
Having lived in the area for 16 years I have never seen a picture of the old South Tower of the Crystal Palace from this view in Westow Hill. Taken in the 1890s around the time my current house was built. It was one of two towers, the other was used as a test facility for dropping bombs at the start of the 2nd World War before being demolished...
Cheers Steels, BK716, with the serial / squadron code of HA - J, from 218 Squadron out of Downham Market arrived the squadron 13 days before on the 17th March 1943. The aircraft failed to return on the 30th Of March, 1943, from an operation to Berlin. The aircraft crashed at sea off Vlieland, Netherlands.. Take off at 21:30hrs One of 3 aircraft lost from 218 Squadron that night. F/O JF Harris RAF + Sgt R Kennedy RAF + F/O HG Farrington RCAF + Sgt CA Bell RAF + P/O JM Campbell RAF + Sgt LRJ Shrubsall RAF + Sgt JFJ McCaw RCAF + please log in to view this image
brings back memories of sunday afternoons with the parents once the pub had closed for the afternoon outside with coke and crisps half the swakeley used to move down there please log in to view this image BushmanQPR please log in to view this image @BushmanQPR · Nov 18 Andreas outside the Ritz. Goldhawk Rd #ShepherdsBush please log in to view this image please log in to view this image i always had the soup the kleftiko and finished with the trifle
Made a fair few of these when I was a kid, old prams and bits of wood from bomb sites were the main ingredients...