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Jul 28th, 2004 at 7:22pm

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....or those of a nervous disposition. This thread could severely damage your health. Scroll down at your own risk. You have been warned. Shocked

My PC is very poorly so it's in the capable hands of someone who knows what he's doing. Sad Meanwhile, I managed to get my ancient reserve machine up & running so I can keep track of what's going on around here. While browsing through the old files on it I found some photos I thought had been lost for ever many moons ago. This might not be such a good idea but I thought I would post them for the general amusement of the members. Hold on to your hats chaps..........! Here we go on a trip far back in time. Roll Eyes

August 1958 at RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire. A 15 year-old Corporal Hagar all kitted out with a RAF parachute for my first trip in a Chipmunk. At least I could pretend it was a Spitfire. 8)
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June 1959 at RAF Hawkinge, the famous BoB fighter base. I had just gained my wings on my first ATC gliding course.
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Our illustrious instructors. All regular RAF pilots on a "rest cure" - some rest. Undecided These guys had flown everything from a Spitfire to a Lightning between them. Roll Eyes
My instructor is F/O Whittenbury 2nd from right.
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About this time I started playing drums in a group. My younger brother is at far right on bass guitar. (He was always better looking than me.) Taken in the Mile Oak Inn at Portslade in the early 60s. He was far too young to drink at the time. This was long before the Fab Four had ever been heard of.
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This is the same group in the mid-sixties during a regular gig at Gatwick Manor, then a posh night club.
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Finally, a trip for old times' sake. Taken while on holiday in Florida in 1991 - by my reckoning that's 33 years after the first one in the thread. Shocked
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Happy days. Wink
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Reply #1 - Jul 28th, 2004 at 7:33pm

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Wow... I never knew photographs ever came in black and white! Shocked Roll Eyes Grin Tongue

Very interesting, Hagar... By chance what kind of drums were those? I might've just sold the same set, they were so old... Roll Eyes
 
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Reply #2 - Jul 28th, 2004 at 7:38pm

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Wow... I never knew photographs ever came in black and white! Shocked Roll Eyes Grin Tongue

Very interesting, Hagar... By chance what kind of drums were those? I might've just sold the same set, they were so old... Roll Eyes

There you go then. LOL The kit is a Trixon. Looks nicer than the white Olympic kit I started out with but I wished I'd kept the old one. Roll Eyes

PS. Note my brother's Burns Black Bison bass guitar. He's still got it. Very rare beast nowadays & worth a fair bit I would think.
 

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Reply #3 - Jul 28th, 2004 at 7:47pm

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The one I just sold was a 1958 Olympic... Close year model?
 
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Reply #4 - Jul 28th, 2004 at 7:55pm

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The one I just sold was a 1958 Olympic... Close year model?

Interesting. Smiley It was a nice kit.
That would be about right. Maybe mine was a year or 2 younger - 1959 - 60 ish. Undecided
 

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Reply #5 - Jul 28th, 2004 at 8:08pm

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Cool. Smiley I've always liked older sets, but new ones play so nice...
 
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Reply #6 - Jul 29th, 2004 at 5:42am

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Amazing piece of history....
 

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Reply #7 - Jul 29th, 2004 at 6:12am
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Aaaaye! Smiley
 
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Reply #8 - Jul 29th, 2004 at 6:37am

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A Wounderful bit of history there Hagar pal.
 

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Reply #9 - Jul 29th, 2004 at 3:48pm

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Wow you went up in THAT glider Doug? It looks like a bathtub with wings Shocked Shocked Shocked You are far braver than I!

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Reply #10 - Jul 29th, 2004 at 3:59pm

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Wow you went up in THAT glider Doug? It looks like a bathtub with wings Shocked Shocked Shocked You are far braver than I!

Mark Wink

There speaks a man who delights in risking life & limb by leaping out of perfectly good aeroplanes & dangling by a couple of pieces of string attached to a giant tablecloth. Shocked  I know which I prefer. Tongue Grin
 

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Inspector Polygon likes the name of the band...Smiley
 

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