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Thank you so much! I don't think that's possible but you are more than welcome to email me. If you click the more link on my channel home page it has ways to contact me. www.youtube.com/@TrexplorerUK

@@louise2055 thanks Louise, I’ve just released one today so hope you can catch that

Hi Lucas, thank you so much for commenting. As it happens, myself and Richard who was in the video have been speaking with Forestry England to seek permissions possibly next year, to do walks in the Forest. If that happens, I can email you - sign up here for news on walks (at the moment just talks we do): nfhwa.org/events/

Thanks Lucas, I appreciate you watching and commenting

thank you Sue

Cheers Matt

Cheers Billy, appreciate you watching and commenting 🙂

Thank you Gaz, you too with what you do - I encourage people to check your creations out!

@TrexplorerUK cheers Marc much appreciated!

Thank you x

Thank you Kenton that's a great idea - you guys do an amazing job.

Thanks Antony, where (ish) in the area are you? I could look up something more local than usual for you.

@@TrexplorerUK I'm in Holbury, so close to Lepe, Exbury and of course Beaulieu and the routes past the old airfield to either Lymington or Brockenhurst. Cheers 👍

@@antonyroe1596 My stamping ground so makes it easy - here's one I recorded just west of the Old Mill in Holbury a few weeks ago, if you missed it: th-cam.com/video/RDcvmDtolXA/w-d-xo.html

Brilliant, I did miss this one and given that the Old Mill is a place I visit quite often (for refreshment of course), I'll be watching closely. I'm loving exploring this new area to me and whilst I love the nature and scenery, it is so much better when you can add in a historical element to where you are. Cheers my friend. @@TrexplorerUK

So true, some never got taken home either which I find incredibly sad. Was reading letters the other day written by RAF men to families in Canada informing them their son had died, and a burial had already taken place in the New Forest.

Cheers mate, I have an account under NewForestRamble but not really used it yet - do you recommend?

@@TrexplorerUK Yes you can do short video stories and reels on there . I’m sure it won’t harm to just post on there as well as the other platforms. I’ll look you up

@@newforestexplorer thanks will look into it

Cheers Robb

I wasn't aware David, a rabbit hole for me to look down later!

Cheers Stefan, so true

thank you that's so kind of you to say

Very

Thank you for watching, really appreciate you taking time to comment too :-)

@@TrexplorerUK You are very welcome!

try my best!

Cheers mate! Didn't know you were lurking..

Thanks Dave that means a lot coming from your goodself. If you and Logan ever fancy another walk about please do say. Perhaps one day we should do a collaborative effort. Take care friend, :-)

Aw thanks, I love doing them and the creative process so glad you do too

@@TrexplorerUK Thanks Marc.

Hi Dave, thank you! There was a heavy AA gunsite at Hardley, I've pinned the position on the map link below. There were also guns in what is now the car park at Dibden Inclosure so it would have been very noisy at points. maps.app.goo.gl/bh1tuqoL4AmUJTKt5

I can see why you would have thought that, makes sense! Re: concrete blocks, I might have done, I have seen a few but not really put them into any context. Whether they are the same you are thinking of I don't know, perhaps drop a google map pin and we can figure it out?

@@sarahgradidge5966 thanks Sarah 😀

Hello, thank you for getting in touch, it's always a privilege to hear from family members. Are there any recollections or anecdotes about Beaulieu Airfield you are able to share which might have been passed down to you please?

Hi Harold, thank you for the comment. I am planning on camping there this summer as it happens, so if I get a chance will shoot some film. All the best 🙂

Thank you - I can't take the credit for finding those exactly. someone else showed me. But once I started looking found more and more out there from different people. I did spot the trench though.... if it is a trench and I suspect it is.

Great memory, thank you for sharing. I do plan on Ashley Walk as it happens, as I know it very well. Hopefully one day

When we've been, sometimes the entrance has been open, other times the gate locked. It does appear to be a target for vandals sadly.

Hi Rob, thanks for watching and the mention of Don. I am aware of Don as have a record of him flying in operations from Beaulieu so am glad you got to see some of the landscape. I wish I could have included all the pilots in this film, including him, but not to be this time. Perhaps I can make some more, I hope so!

There is film of his plane at Beaulieu code D5-N . He did not fly D-Day ops as he was grounded with a tonsillitis.

@@SpitfireCGI thanks Gaz it was such an amazing coincidence and I couldn’t help but relate it to Stanley flying off into the clouds.

@TrexplorerUK I thought that too,it was exactly when you mentioned his name.

@@SpitfireCGI Yep, it can be quite an atmospheric place at times. If you ever fancy a walkabout there, do say if you come this way.

@@TrexplorerUK i bet and yes will do.

Hello Charles thank you so much for sharing his story: to date my knowledge of the hell hawks is very limited to their time in England. I plan to find out more about their time post June 1944 soon so will learn more about Jesse thank you

his name 2LT Thomas F Miller. was was credited with 5.25 kills. He survived the war, which was lucky for me as I was born in 1948.

I myself, am a veteran of the TET Offensive of 1968.

Hi Clarence thank you for sharing that with me. What a legend ❤

@@darrengilbert7438 hi Darren thanks for watching and leaving a comment it’s appreciated 😀

Hi David thank you for watching and the comment. Lovely to hear about dad, legend 😄

Cheers matt 😁

@@wireframebox quite simply a beautiful coincidence. Could not have timed it better.

Thank you 😊

@@antonyroe1596 hi Antony thank you! This video is quite old now and there are a couple of errors in it so I cringe a little now watching it but so glad people still enjoy it all this time later! I’ve got a video coming out tomorrow about Beaulieu airfield so I hope you will catch that. I think I scheduled it to publish at noon. Thanks again!

@@TrexplorerUK Thanks very much for taking the time to reply, I really appreciate it. I have walked miles around Beaulieu and the surrounding areas and whilst I liked where I lived before (the Isle of Wight) these walks are so much better when you can add a bit of history or context to where you are. I often follow Dave Ford's walks and will now add your explorations to my "to do " list. I need 50 years or more to cover the areas I wish to walk in and explore for the first time. Thanks for the inspiration, cheers!

Thank you for the comment. Do you have a connection to the 311 at all?

⁠Unfortunately not, but the topic of Czechoslovaks in the RAF is close to me because I am Czech. I don't know of anyone from my family who served in the RAF. I am glad that thanks to such heroes we can live today.

Cheers Steve!

Thank you for the comment, the concrete figure of eight at the Woodfidley Crossing is mistaken for WW2, but instead it's the result of post war experimentation. During the 1950’s & 60’s the Forestry Commission started upgrading the timber extraction tracks in the Forest by making new gravel tracks around the inclosures. The needed to experiment on the mix of sand, gravel and clay so they could find out what was most hard wearing. As such they laid out this concrete circuits which had patches in the central section which could be laid with the experimental mixes. A lorry would then be set to driving over and over the mix again and again with the turning circles at each end to prevent the need for lots of manoeuvring each time they got to the other end.

thank you :-)