World aviation museum and gate guard map

[Nick]

I looked up Aylestone Park and got some football club in Leicester!   

The actual gates are here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/BiWU4C4FGfYiZTR48

Better pics and a story here: https://rafadappassn.org/articles/raf-hereford-main-gates-and-more-dave-williams-324th/

[reddfoxx]

Great, thanks!

[reddfoxx]

Brief update, as I've been going back through and making sure things are still there and adding a few more.  2130 aviation museums, 2019 miscellaneous entries (mostly memorials,) 12124 gate guards/air parks/other display planes.  For a total of 16273 entries.  Google Maps will let me have 20000 on the map, so a ways to go, probably will mostly be memorials as I think we've pretty well covered the museums and will only turn up a few more display planes here and there.

[Rheged]

I assume you already have this one https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/worcestershire-herefordshire/croome/raf-defford-museum  but if not, it's worth a visit if anyone is in the area! 

[reddfoxx]

Yep, but thanks!

[Nick]

I assume you already have this one https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/worcestershire-herefordshire/croome/raf-defford-museum  but if not, it's worth a visit if anyone is in the area!

There is a stained glass window in the Hall at Goodrich Castle commemorating the work of the RAF Radar units at Defford, Pershore and Malvern and the tragic loss of a Halifax radar testbed with scientists on board.

https://semorganhistoricalfiction.wordpress.com/2021/06/16/goodrich-castle-stained-glass-memorial-for-radar-development/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/ntB9GhmqTEymPY7srAELNA

[reddfoxx]

Have it, thanks!

[reddfoxx]

I added that link to the marker.

[Nick]

Dundee, Scotland.
Plaque on the riverfront near RRS Discovery - commemorating the flight of Maia and Mercury on the worlds longest seaplane flight which was from Dundee to South Africa.

https://publicartdundee.org/listing/maia-mercury-commemorative-frieze/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Mayo_Composite

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Jaugf6t2wBugv95t8

[PR19_Kit]

Ooooh, so presumably the Maia/Mercury pair took off from the Tay?

I never knew that before. 

[Rheged]

Ooooh, so presumably the Maia/Mercury pair took off from the Tay?

I never knew that before. 

I've got press cuttings reporting it!   Dad was given a set of scrap books in early 1940 by an older lad  (Reg) who'd just joined the RAF.  They are full of press cuttings from 1936 to 1940...........and are absolutely fascinating!

As an aside , Reg survived the war and having served as a Transport Command pilot emigrated as a £10 Pom. His youngest son lives in Freemantle and I'm still in intermittent touch with him by email.

[NARSES2]

I've got press cuttings reporting it!   Dad was given a set of scrap books in early 1940 by an older lad  (Reg) who'd just joined the RAF.  They are full of press cuttings from 1936 to 1940...........and are absolutely fascinating!

Now there's a pastime that survived through to about the early 60's and then dissapeared, keeping a scrapbook. Some of the ones you see on Antiques Roadshow go for a fair old bit 

[reddfoxx]

I've found a few scrapbooks headed for the trash bin and kept them, even if I don't have any connection.  Too much interesting information in there, organized well.

[reddfoxx]

Dundee, Scotland.
Plaque on the riverfront near RRS Discovery - commemorating the flight of Maia and Mercury on the worlds longest seaplane flight which was from Dundee to South Africa.

https://publicartdundee.org/listing/maia-mercury-commemorative-frieze/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Mayo_Composite

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Jaugf6t2wBugv95t8

Ooh, did not have that one, thanks!

[Rheged]

Dundee, Scotland.
Plaque on the riverfront near RRS Discovery - commemorating the flight of Maia and Mercury on the worlds longest seaplane flight which was from Dundee to South Africa.

https://publicartdundee.org/listing/maia-mercury-commemorative-frieze/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Mayo_Composite

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Jaugf6t2wBugv95t8

Ooh, did not have that one, thanks!

It's becoming an increasingly difficult challenge:  "Can you find a museum/memorial that Reddfoxx DOES'T know about?!"