Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Roy Chadwick: 'father' of the Lancaster Bomber

1. Tribute to Roy Chadwick,  CBE, FRAeS (1893 - 1947)
(Designer of the Avro Lancaster Bomber)
2. 'Just Jane', an Avro Lancaster Bomber
3. 'Just Jane', in the hangar of the wartime RAF East Kirkby
 Photographs taken at: 
Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre, Spilsby, Lincs. 
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Sunday, September 28, 2014

Tribute to the "Dambusters" (617 Squadron)

1. WW2 "Dambusters" tribute 
(with photographs and autographs)
2. 50th anniversary tribute of the dams raid (1943 - 1993)

3. Exhibits telling the WW2 story of 617 Squadron
4. A Barnes Wallis "Bouncing Bomb" on display
 Photographs taken at: 
the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Museum
(Based at the wartime R.A.F. East Kirkby airfield)
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Irthington War Memorial, Cumbria

1. St Kentigern's Parish Church and war memorial, Cumbria. 
2. Irthington War Memorial, St Kentigern's churchyard
3. Dedication and list of WW1 names on the war memorial
4. Dedication and WW2 names on the war memorial
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Sunday, September 14, 2014

The wartime refuge of Stanislas Bender

1. Lourdes in the High Pyrenees of southern France
[Wartime refuge for the Jewish painter Stanislas Bender]
2. Lourdes Parish Church
[Dedicated to the Sacred Heart]
3. The Lady Chapel and WW1 Parish War Memorial,
4. "The ecstasy of Bernadette" by Stanislas Bender
[In the St Bernadette Chapel of Lourdes Parish Church]
 
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