Good video Lincolnshire roads great for bikes, some interesting facts RAF Ingham is definately worth a visit but totally reliant on volunteers which is why it only opens on certain days of the week.
Next time you are in the area grab a coffee at the Petwood Hotel, Woodhall Spa. It was the wartime home of 617 Squadron and has a bar with photos and memorabilia dedicated to them.
If you are in the area again during summer time - you might want to head to the Tattershall Thorpe Visitor Centre where 617 Squadron was based after RAF Scampton, when they bombed the Tirpitz in Tromoso Fjord. Great video by the way :)
A few holes in your commentary. Soon after Hemswell you passed former RAF Ingham, which now features a museum and memorial to Polish airmen stationed there. The graveyard at Scampton includes a small row of CWGC headstones marking the resting place of the nine man crew of a German aircraft. Just round the corner is the Dambusters public house, so named for obvious reasons. Also, the unfortunate individuals who cross the channel in small boats are not illegal immigrants unless they stay on after refusal of their asylum application, despite what Daily Mail "disinformation" may suggest.
They do not enter the country legally, thus illegal. The Dambusters is a nice pub, I may go back again. Thanks for the note re the German aircrew. I included the RAF Ingham Polish link in the description. Thanks for your comment.
The Church website elaborates on the detail of the German airmen buried there. They were the crews of two separate medium bomber Junkers aircraft 3-4 years apart. The odd number includes a "joyrider" from the air force base they flew from.
Good video Lincolnshire roads great for bikes, some interesting facts RAF Ingham is definately worth a visit but totally reliant on volunteers which is why it only opens on certain days of the week.
Yes, I'm going back to Ingham. Thanks for your comment Paul.
Next time you are in the area grab a coffee at the Petwood Hotel, Woodhall Spa. It was the wartime home of 617 Squadron and has a bar with photos and memorabilia dedicated to them.
Thanks Mike I'll do that.
If you are in the area again during summer time - you might want to head to the Tattershall Thorpe Visitor Centre where 617 Squadron was based after RAF Scampton, when they bombed the Tirpitz in Tromoso Fjord. Great video by the way :)
Thanks for that, appreciated. I'll add it to my expanding list. There's so much history to take in. I may have to do a Part 2!
nice video mukka enjoyed that
Cheers Brian. I'm getting a bit disillusioned with it at the moment.
@ I think there’s a lot of us in the same boat mate with it at the minute
A few holes in your commentary. Soon after Hemswell you passed former RAF Ingham, which now features a museum and memorial to Polish airmen stationed there. The graveyard at Scampton includes a small row of CWGC headstones marking the resting place of the nine man crew of a German aircraft. Just round the corner is the Dambusters public house, so named for obvious reasons. Also, the unfortunate individuals who cross the channel in small boats are not illegal immigrants unless they stay on after refusal of their asylum application, despite what Daily Mail "disinformation" may suggest.
They do not enter the country legally, thus illegal. The Dambusters is a nice pub, I may go back again.
Thanks for the note re the German aircrew.
I included the RAF Ingham Polish link in the description.
Thanks for your comment.
The Church website elaborates on the detail of the German airmen buried there. They were the crews of two separate medium bomber Junkers aircraft 3-4 years apart. The odd number includes a "joyrider" from the air force base they flew from.
@DudgeWood thanks for that.