by GAV » Thu Oct 29, 2015 8:56 pm
On one occassion back in the early 90s,3 of us went to a show at Knebworth, the Rally of The Giants, and after a tent weekend there,went up to Skegness.
We found a camp site, in Skeggy,then the following weekend we went to another show,the Notts Americana driving cross country past Lincoln, to the Newark Sowground. I also saw a sign for Louth,as nye on 3 decades before, I had gone to watch my first ever motor race,with another trainee Cadet at Grimsby, from Louth,in his brothers 850 Fiat to Cadwell Park. Then to his Mum's for a fab tea, before the kind brother drove us back to the hostel, named The Ship.
After that lapse into nostalgia, The 3 of us tried to erected our 6 person tent,near to a Runway,that gliders and stuff we're taking off from, it was somewhat blustery but with help got the tent up, without us finishing up aloft too.
In the background by the Aircraft Museum,was a Vulcan .
Another American car owning friend was a member of a Classic Club in Southend, who met at the Anne Boleyn Pub, opposite Rochford Airport, so I started going there with him.
Sadly after he left us, I continued to go down there and could see the Vulcan Bomber , they were trying in vain to get off the ground again, to no avail as going over the railway bridge.
There was a stand at a show mentioned elsewhere, on Canvey Island and in the Bus Museum,given over to mostly vendors for the day,was a stand raising funds for at least the ground bound Vulcan. Presumably the Southend one, and not the Robin Hood Airfield one Mike mentions.
Do you happen to know if that would be the same one we saw at Newark?
The real icing on the cake though for me was before moving here we lived atop a hill, in a place called Lawford Dale,near Manningtree.
The Clacton Airshow was on and the Vulcan could be seen in full view from the sitting room window, flying over nice and low(on a previous occassion the Queens Flight flew past) en route to Clacton too.
I guess that was a real priveledge seeing the last flying VBomber.