Why?Orcadians hate the Orkney isles being called “the Orkneys”
I don’t know but when I mentioned about moving there I received a pm from a member on here who lives there advising me.Why?
it really pisses me off when people use ‘ incorrectly.Just found it from vfr-ray1
First rule - don't call the place the "Orkney's", really pisses off the locals like me. The name Orkney is actually plural so doesn't need an "s" added but you will get off with Orkney Islands.
Sassenach.I've just realised, having recently again been reading the hobbit I hadn't clocked it was about a place.
I thought the statement was all about Auk Knees.
I couldn't grasp why there was such concern about the middle earth health service.
As for Orkney Islands, north of Watford is bad enough, north of Edinburgh is the stone age
Bless youSassenach.
Not many Anderson shelters remain intact and very few are accessible to the public as most were sited in private gardensDuring WW2 over 3 million Anderson air raid shelters were distributed in kit form for home build/installation In the UK.
yep often had a wooden top bodged onto them and used as a dining room table, as a kid a family in the village still had one of these used as a dog kennelAnd the less known Morrison shelter…designed to withstand a two storey house falling on it, room for two adults and two kids.
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Interesting fact about his Hunter... It was one of a batch sold to the Chilean Air Force. Ultimately it was lost in a crash in 1982.A while ago someone mentioned the Hawker Hunter which flew under London Bridge on 5th April 1968.
Purely by accident today I came across someone who knew the pilot.
Apparently it was a chap called Alan Pollack.
He was unhappy about what he felt was a lack of celebration of fifty years of the RAF by the MOD - no displays planned.
His protest involved circling Parliament and then looking at the rivets under Tower bridge.
He wasn't alone in his disgruntlement.
He was the Flight Commander No1 (fighter) squadron he led his colleagues on a leaflet raid of various RAF bases on 1st April.
On 4th April he led his unit on a visit to RAF Tangmere where they did their own impromptu display.
He followed this with his own personal display on the 5th over London.
The decision for no displays was made by MOD and was not popular in the RAF (Harold Wilson govt)
It seems he also visited several other RAF airfields on his way home - at 200 feet inverted.
He was arrested and left the RAF on medical grounds - this avoided a court martial and he kept his pension etc.
He died in 2019 aged 76.