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1934
1 Jul
My dad used to drive buses from Ponders End garage on the 69 route between Camberwell Green and Wormley, the Queens Head.
The bus had an outside staircase and an open drivers cab, he was fro...
1951
13 May
We went to the South Bank in London shortly after the festival opened, there was thousands of people, it was packed.
We saw the Skylon and photographed it from directly underneath where ther...
2009
27 Jun
Glen, Steve, Chris, Becky and I,
Went to Biggin Hill, to see the show in the sky.
Up lanes long and narrow...
2008
27 Apr
At the end of the runway, we waited, not long,
And then the two engines, burnt into song,
We gathered mome...
1943
1 Jul
In the summer of 1943 I was camping with 1155 squadron of the Air Training Corps at RAF Harwell airbase.
Four US Air Force B17s came in together one day Heavily damaged after a sortie. The n...