RAF Bentley Priory (1 Viewer)

[Rob]

This is fantastic news and I can't wait, will be through those doors on opening day^&cool

http://www.bentleypriory.org/news/news.php?page_id=2


And just look at what we have coming up/opening here in the UK in the coming years;

RAF Bentley priory brand new Battle of Britain museum, opening 2013
RAF Hendon, huge new memorial building which apparently will be as tall as St Pauls, in a cone type shape and housing B.O.B fighters
Imperial War museum new WW1 Galleries, bigger and better opening in 2014 for 100th Anniversary of the outbreak of that War
Imperial War museum new WW2 Galleries again bigger and better opening in 2019 for 80th Anniversary of outbreak of WW2.
RAF Bomber Command memorial in Green Park London, a large, long overdue memorial to our heroes who took the fight to the Germans night after night.

So much to look forward to and I aim to be there for the opening of every one of these, camera in hand of course:wink2:

Rob

 

[Currahee Chris]

Guess that delays my visit then. {sm2}{sm4} Wonder what kind of releases will be at the London show in 2014??? {sm4}

 

[Rob]

Guess that delays my visit then. {sm2}{sm4} Wonder what kind of releases will be at the London show in 2014??? {sm4}

And can you imagine the films and docu's, I better start clearing my Sky box!:wink2:

Rob

 

[Obee]

Rob,

thanks for the news about Bently Priory.

I heard lots about this place from my Mum, she served in the WAAF in WW2 and was stationed there for some considerable time. She was one of the gals who keep the boys alive... she was a cook, (and a good cook too) *apollgies to G&S

If she was alive, and capable of going back yo UK, I'm sure she would love to revisit the place where she 'did her duty' and also had some fun times (she was in her 20's then) amongst the horrors of war. She told me about Stanmore, Harrow on the Hill and such places too.

I'm looking forward to further posts and images from you,

thanks again,

John

 

[Rob]

Rob,

thanks for the news about Bently Priory.

I heard lots about this place from my Mum, she served in the WAAF in WW2 and was stationed there for some considerable time. She was one of the gals who keep the boys alive... she was a cook, (and a good cook too) *apollgies to G&S

If she was alive, and capable of going back yo UK, I'm sure she would love to revisit the place where she 'did her duty' and also had some fun times (she was in her 20's then) amongst the horrors of war. She told me about Stanmore, Harrow on the Hill and such places too.

I'm looking forward to further posts and images from you,

thanks again,

John

Hey John,

No problem my friend. What a nice story, you must be very proud, she really did her bit god bless her. Stanmore, Harrow on the Hill, Bushey,Watford are all places I know as I grew up in the area.

I will over the coming years be at all these openings and will take pics a plenty for the forum, who knows John there may be one of your mum on the walls of BP:smile2:

Cheers

Rob

 

[The Military Workshop]

That is all very well Rob but what about the 200th of Waterloo ?{sm4}{sm4}{sm4}

I asked in another thread several weeks ago but nobody seemed to know if anything was planned.

Regards
Brett

 

[Obee]

Rob,

in my Mum's photo album, there are a few pics of the 'Cook House' and I've also found her own copy of the Station Standing Orders in book form for the Number 3 Barrage Balloon group... so she wasn't in Fighter Command, but helping defend the Priory.

John

 

[Louis Badolato]

Yet another reason to talk my wife into a trip across the pond. I just booked a Disney World vacation, which will be my children's first trip in an airplane. Assuming they can handle a 4 hour trip to Disney, maybe we can shoot for the longer flight to Heathrow next.:wink2:

 

[Obee]

That is all very well Rob but what about the 200th of Waterloo ?{sm4}{sm4}{sm4}

I asked in another thread several weeks ago but nobody seemed to know if anything was planned.

Regards
Brett

Brett,

I'll be in that one...... but I think that being in Belgium on THAT day would be manic.... more people that were on the battlefiled on THE day...... still worth the trip, and then go onto the June London Toy Soldier Show, back to France to Les Invalides in Paris, and top off with Le Tour de France flash past.

BLISS ^&grin

John

 

[Rob]

Yet another reason to talk my wife into a trip across the pond. I just booked a Disney World vacation, which will be my children's first trip in an airplane. Assuming they can handle a 4 hour trip to Disney, maybe we can shoot for the longer flight to Heathrow next.:wink2:

Nice one Louis, might well be worth waiting unti some of these are open, the new plans for the IWM London sound very exciting^&cool

Rob