Something about old British Aircraft Carriers. Always looked so Purposeful 🇬🇧
DeHavilland Vampire, high speed low pass, Norway. Well worth a watch
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Today 1854. The Charge of the Light Brigade
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Today mainly trying out my recently purchased Swiss Army petrol cooker. At the moment it is sounding like a V1 pulse jet. I am expecting Significant hair loss 😂
What might have been. The proposed 1950s Avro 730 Mach 3 strategic reconnaissance/Strike Aircraft 🇬🇧
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Visit to St. Georges, Grenada today. Southernmost of the Windward Islands, with a picturesque horse-shoe shaped harbour, dominated by Fort George
Known for its spices - nutmeg particularly - the island was British from 1763 until 1974 independence
The Royal Grenada Police Force Sergeant on duty showed me his swagger stick - brown shaft for Sergeant, black for Inspector and above
At independence, the GRPF chose to retain the colonial badge:
🔹shows Christopher Columbus's Santa Maria ship
🔹Latin banner text reads 'Clarior E Tenebris' - Light (shining) out of Darkness
🔹colonial heraldry retained at independence to represent long-standing tradition of the force (similar to other Caribbean nations)
🔹St. Edward's crown (the British royal crown)
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The Death of HMS Implacable in 1949. She was captured from the French in 1805 and served with the Royal Navy for 144 years 🇬🇧
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UK 1950s civil defence
- Civil Defence Corps (main volunteer force – rescue, first aid, welfare)
- Auxiliary Fire Service
- National Hospital Service Reserve
- Industrial Civil Defence Service (workplace units)
- Plus Royal Observer Corps (fallout monitoring) & Special Constabulary
Hundreds of thousands of volunteers
Today a National Risk Register and 3 days reserve of Toilet Rolls
Today mainly pump testing an 80m deep borehole that we have just drilled to supply a new build that is going to be totally off grid, near Long Melford, Suffolk
Just went through the village of Long Melford and the Circus is on the Green. Nice to see their great collection of Bedfords, Scammells and Fodens @ClubEnthusiasts
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