HUMMING AND HARRING ABOUT A GARDEN STATUE/ORNAMENT

I should imagine that it being made of lead, Scrungee, that it would be quite rare, but there are Crocodile "garden ornaments" made for sale






I'm pretty sure that it's not what I want in the garden though as I'd never be sure if it was real or no.

 

I wouldn't mind having an No.111 Squadron English Electric Lightning parked in the garden, Jasmine, just for old times sake...........but it would take up a lot of room.

 

So you tried??

 

Eeerrrr, it didn't have propellers, Jasmine It had two really powerful Jet Engines that could take it to 1800mph, and was famous for taking off and then the pilot pulling the stick back and doing a nearly vertical climb......





my work area was the green cone at the front which housed Ferranti Radar and my job was to keep it working and update it every now and then.

 

Oh, you should have let us know, as FC, Shiney, Woo and I would have brought a digger.

I remember seeing a garden on Nantwich Road in Crewe that had a fence of old Mk12 Spitfire Propellers and when I asked about them the Lady didn't even know what they were, their value both in History and monie.

I've got a couple of ideas on the Statue but the impending ban on crossing the border into Wales is going to knock things back, as that's where I can have a real look at what I'm thinking of, and I might also need a 30 inch high plinth as that appears to be the recommended height for plinths.

 

Even seeing that every day, as I did, Freddy, never took that awe away and I was so lucky to be a member of No.111 Squadron (also known as, Treble One, Trouble One, and Trembling First), which took me under it's wing being I was the youngest member of the Squadron fresh out of 2 years of Apprenticeship.
The Lightning was such a Beast of power and, to us, a thing of Beauty, and I could write a book on my experiences and the unbelievable people I worked with. It's top operating maximum height was always classified as Secret but, as an indication, the TV personality, Brian Cox, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, flew in one of the few left still flying by a Firm in South Africa to take him to the "edge of Space" where he could observe the delineation between the Earth's blue atmosphere and the blackness of Space.
I can still "see and hear" the thunder of the Lightning in double reheat as it did that almost vertical climb and smell that evocative smell of burning Paraffin And it's still a aircraft of reverence to those who flew her and worked on her. I flew in one, (a T4 trainer) from Anglesey to Wattisham in Suffolk, and from Suffolk to Cyprus, so I was such a lucky young "erk"

Back to Statues......Still not sure, at the moment, whether or not I will be able to cross over into Wales, only 8 miles away, to try to some certain Statues for the garden which is a bit frustrating.