NOT EAST KIRKBY AGAIN [ JUST JANE ] PIC'S

[Ian Lanc]

i went to EAST KIRKBY again to watch 'just jane' on bank holiday monday, i've been there 14 times now and i still never tire of that place i just love the sound of her fire up and a sense of loss when you walk around, if anyone goes there don't forget to walk all the way around the outside of centre and read all the plaques which tell you of local bomber/ground crew who where killed, very moving to read all of them and also say a little prayer/thoughts in their memorial chapel which honours 57 and 630 sqd' very peaceful but a sense of sadness lies in that chapel

i just wish they would relocate the chicken sheds somewhere else ! the wind was blowing straight into the centre and so was the smell even my cloth's melt of chicken poo

these are my own pictures and if anyone wants to save them for other purposes they are more than welcome to so

enjoy.....

the old watch tower, watch's in on her again.

she now taxi's right onto the grass, unlike her previous times when she went as far as the concrete hard standing.

'just jane' coming back to us after her second start up

'just jane' under her own power yet again

one of the many plaques on the grounds, this one just happens to be my next lancaster project DX-P.

the chapel [note the lonely wife]

not the same as the other picture !

found this old bomb bay door, while i was walking around, right in the corner of the near the old unloved fire tenders, i thought hhmmmm i wounder if it will fit in my boot

thanks for looking again !

[daz greenwood]

Ian you lucky, lucky, lucky. Well you know.

[AnonymousDFB1]

Went there last summer and words escape me of how good this visit is, a must for any aviation nut.

[Honeybee]

Hi

[note the lonely wife]

I find it amazing that we take our other halves, Mothers and Fathers to such places, where ordinarilly they would never dream of going, and they are all moved by what they see. Not that I leave the wife to wander around, you never know who might be lurking. Great piccies, went there in April with Mum and Dad and wife, just so they could see it, for their benifit of course,

Regards

Paul

[perry]

Took my youngest son there, one of our last trips out together before his mum moved to Wales.

I asked one of the engineers working on Just Jane if he could have a look inside. This chap helped him inside and over into the rear turret.

After climbing back over the horizontal stabilizer, my son looked and thought deeply...... "dad, the man wouldn't be able to get out of there if it was crashing would he...."

He was 6 at the time but I'm sure it will be a memory he'll have forever.