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General Category => Events => Topic started by: renegade53 on July 11, 2011, 07:14:07 PM



Title: BoB memorial
Post by: renegade53 on July 11, 2011, 07:14:07 PM
i know its not an event but i stopped off there on the way to the triumph club event. as you can tell mike is back from holiday and fitted me a replacement poiwer unit in the comp.

hurricane


Title: Re: BoB memorial
Post by: renegade53 on July 11, 2011, 07:14:31 PM
spitfire


Title: Re: BoB memorial
Post by: renegade53 on July 11, 2011, 07:15:33 PM
looking out in hope they all come back and the center of the wall


Title: Re: BoB memorial
Post by: renegade53 on July 11, 2011, 07:16:21 PM
names 1


Title: Re: BoB memorial
Post by: renegade53 on July 11, 2011, 07:17:07 PM
names 2


Title: Re: BoB memorial
Post by: BikerGran on July 11, 2011, 08:27:31 PM
I've been there when it was a Round Britain Rally landmark, there was no-one else there at the time and I found that sculpture of the airman watching for his oppos to return was the most poignant memorial I've ever seen. 

Definitely worth another visit.


Title: Re: BoB memorial
Post by: renegade53 on July 11, 2011, 08:41:10 PM
did stop at hawkinge first but they don't allow cameras or camera phones in the museum, seems a while back they suspect some scumbags took photos to case the joint. so now they've banned cameras and camera phones.


Title: Re: BoB memorial
Post by: Tony oily bike on July 11, 2011, 08:53:22 PM
Care to tell us where 'there' is?   ;)

Looks like the type of place I'd like to go to............


Title: Re: BoB memorial
Post by: renegade53 on July 12, 2011, 05:50:59 PM
its not far from the end of the m20 on the way to dover at a place called capel le ferne. at the end of the month they've a spit flying over the memorial and i'll be at the hayride. http://www.battleofbritainmemorial.org/the-memorial/ not far about a mile is the old airfield at hawkinge. most of it built on but it has a small interesting museum. if yer going down you could kill 2 luftwaffe with one stone by watching the spit and a visit to hawkinge