Guess where I’ve been today…. I love an avro bird 😍👌😂

Getting stuck into this one 👌

Inside the cockpit of Vulcan XL318 5 years ago at the RAF museum in Hendon. Money well spent!

What a photo! I definitely would need a new set of briefs and a set of hearing aids after that!

Happy Friday! Valiant WZ363 coming into land from the Donald Briggs collection on the IBCC Archive!

Kent Battle of Britain Museum has less than a month to get the money together to keep these #BattleOfBritain aircrew medals in the hands of the public. Please consider giving anything you can in the 85th anniversary year of this iconic campaign. #FinancingTheFew www.justgiving.com/campaign/med...

Cracking episode on @coldwarpod.bsky.social well worth a listen! open.spotify.com/episode/0ZzX...

Royal Navy Merlin 🚁

Before listening to this episode I had never hear of Thomas Gray or Donald Garland. Such a brave and tragic story, it also shows how the war decimated families. I cant even imagine the grief the Garland family must have gone through. Powerful Stuff, great episode.

Throwback to Oosterbeek cemetery before the service. Polish armed forces pay their respects. I watched them place a rose on every grave and spoke with a couple. Very moving! So glad I was able to attend!

Lovely bike ride home!

Gone back into the archive and found the video I took at Old Warden Airshow of Vulcan XH558 Last display in October 2015. 10 Years this year, never heard an aircraft set so many car alarms off before! My Favourite of all time #RAF

Major Gale "Buck" Winston Cleven was a pilot with the 100th Bomb Group. He was one of the group's original members and was given command of the 350th Bomb Squadron.

Watching masters of the Air again and I’m enjoying it much more second time round!

Been an absolute shitter of a morning, had to put our dog down last night and the whole family is devastated. 😩 plenty of coffee and chocolate going about! Such a kick in the balls.

This is 102 Squadron Halifax RG482 ‘K’ which crashed into the Red House on Yapham Road, Pocklington on 30 July 1945. From the IBCC Archive

28 Jan 1457: Margaret Beaufort gives birth to the future Henry VII, at #Pembroke Castle #otd (NLW) Exactly 90 years later his son & eventual heir, Henry VIII would die #otd at Whitehall - the birthday of the Tudor royal dynasty & death day of its second king.

A boxing bout aboard HMS Anson, from the IWM Archive

The big guns of the battleship HMS ANSON in Northern waters coated with ice. From the IWM Archive #RoyalNavy

The great man Winston Churchill watches a Short Stirling heavy bomber of No 7 Squadron, photo from the Imperial War Museum Archive!

A magnificent resource.

Hello to my new followers from the starter pack. I usually post items from the IBCC Digital Archive like these pages from P/O Eric Sanger's prisoner of war log. He flew op's as an observer with 9 Squadron before being shot down and becoming a POW. ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/items/...

A very wet Vulcan bomber XH558 at RIAT 2009, pretty sure this was from my disposable Kodak!

Such an imposing aircraft, so glad i got to see this aircraft fly on several occasions, from the IBCC Archive #MondayMotivation

This is genuinely the first time i have heard/seen this aircraft before.... 📖

An airborne Whitley bomber, from the IBCC Archive Whitley T4131 EY-W 1'

Applicable for all conflicts in the world. Past, present and future.

#HolocaustRemembranceDay #WeRemember

Giving this one a second reading! 👌 📖 @lydiajane13.bsky.social

Night Bombers, an extraordinary piece of footage, well worth a watch! @nmtdambusters.bsky.social youtu.be/xAztJVoBTKE?...

On the bike earlier.

HMS Anson in Sydney harbour, my grandfather would have been onboard at the time!

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Listening to @talksport.com Alan Brazil and Ray Parlour discuss the Battle of Britain and other key battles of the Second World War is something i did not expect to hear this morning. They tried.... #Talksport

Today’s badge - an unofficial badge from the Carron armaments factory, worn by women workers who were known as Carronettes. #WW1 #FWW

One for @lydiajane13.bsky.social "Air-to-air front quarter view of a Halifax squadron Letters 'B-EY'" from the IBCC Archive #FridayFeeling

Definitely got Friday blues today, missing the sun and am drifting back to Oosterbeek ☀️

Absolutely loving the database! A view of a Blenheim crashed in the desert. ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collec...

I have been scrolling through the IBCC Digital database and found this photograph of a raid on on Duisburg on 22/01/25 "A target photograph of Duisburg." How RAF personnel made sense of the photographs amazes me!

Coming up to five years since I visited the Halifax bomber at Elvington, great experience and can’t wait to visit again!

Also I never thought I could shift Damian Lewis being Winters in my brain, but his performance with Mark Rylance is up there! Wolf Hall is unrivalled!

Absolute masterpiece, Mark Rylance is sublime. You know how it’s going to end but you still hope that he makes it out! This show will be spoken about for years to come!

Bosh! @almurray.bsky.social

Another great one 👍👌☑️

A Free French Commando, 1943 IWM H 31424

Beautiful cycle home today!

If you see this, quote a picture you took of something green.

Never forget