Hi Everyone,
Please note that his visit closed out to any further attendees in Post #50!
We look forward to seeing you all at the rendevous point on Sunday 5th October 
Best regards
Team Solent
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Hi Mal, I bought our tickets, plus 1 more for our lad Chris, who sadly is driving a VW Polo…but he is a F.Off WC in the RAF, which is doing the present day equivalent of what they did at Uxbridge in WW2!
He’s in the market for a new car so everyone can work on him (and his mother) to convince him a MX-5 is just what he needs.
He can lurk at the back of our convoy to spare any embarrassment…..
Hi Rob,
Chris is most welcome, especially as you bought a ttocket for him. Obviously, as you have already bought Chris a ticket the venue is aware he is coming and I will add him to my list.
Best Regards
Mal
Hi Mal
Is there a route for Sunday to the Bunker to download, or will you be handing out on the day?
Regards Nigel
Hi Everyone,
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Many thanks to Mal for organising this.
The visit to the Bunker was excellent, very well presented, and I could feel the place come alive again! Looking at some of the pictures on the walls was eerie.
I don’t think I would have gone down there again on my own initiative, after feeling the ghosts of my Dad and my Uncle (both RAF) raising the hairs on the back of my neck on my previous visit, very soon after it first opened to the public and before the visitor centre and all the planes were added. But this visit helped me lay the ghosts to rest.
My RAF meteorologist Dad worked on the Uxbridge base a couple of times during and post war, but not in the Bunker, and was demobbed there later. Typical of those who went through the war doing key work, he never, ever said anything about it. I only found out what he did from his war-time team at his funeral in 1997!
Some of the treats today then, a Hurricane replica and some of the MX-5s
The Spitfire replica about to strafe us
The Hurricane pulling away over the rest of the MX-5 flock
The 11 Group plotting room as seen from Churchill’s seat, there would have been about 40 working in there, mostly female.
And Park’s seat for overall command of the Fighter operations. looking down over the plotting room.
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Hi Richard,
Sorry for the delay in replying but we got back late yesterday and then had some supper and just needed to chill-out😴
I am so pleased you enjoyed the visit and managed to lay some of those ghosts to rest. The Bunker is such an interesting place to visit and really shows how the war was won, with the Dowding System, that was employed there and around England….what an inspired system👍
There us an interesting link on the Dowding System here; Dowding system - Wikipedia
Take care and sorry I did not get a chance to chat to you and Linda more yesterday.
Kind Regards
Mal
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