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I know this is completely not the point of the post, but in that first picture, is the road on the outside or the inside of the compound?

Because, if it's on the outside (which I assume it is), isn't the fence facing the wrong way around?
I wonder how many other museums let you arrive by your own aircraft?

(The London Canal Museum has moorings for visitors arriving by boat)
Great post. Thanks DG.
>>and ponder the end of civilisation we somehow avoided

Don't rest too easy just yet...
I believe you can fly into the Shuttleworth Collection.
I'm pretty sure it was in the mid-60s that I was given an Annual (The Eagle?) which contained a feature about the TSR2.
After witnessing one of the farewell flights of the last airworthy Vulcan, I found that XH558 (I think that's its number) had a page on fb: it regularly posts up contemporary photos from the Cold War era, with lines of Vulcans in a state of 'constant readiness.'
Thanks for that look. I'll put it on my visits list. There's an interesting hour-long programme on the TSR2 story on YouTube.

Really enjoying the varied posts DG. many thanks.
Is the road sign in the first photo informing about the speed of the marching troops, or an instruction to the driver? Or (or possibly additionally), information about where the troops are going?
Years ago, in my previous professional life as a copywriter, I had my fair share of dreary projects (mostly from clients in the construction industry). But one of the more interesting jobs I had involved being hired to write the first guidebook for the National Cold War Museum. I came out of it knowing a hell of a lot more about planes than when I went in.
Anyway, it's most likely been long since superseded by a more recent edition.
In 'Ancient' Greece, Cicero said "the lessons of history are that people do not learn the lessons of history."

Not much changes.
@RogerW: There was a TV programme about 18 months ago, covering XH558’s last flight. Perhaps you saw it. It featured Guy Martin working with the team preparing the aircraft. At one stage he was allowed to pilot it at a very sedate pace along the runway and the intense concentration on his face was wonderful to see. But he was in seventh heaven afterwards.
@RG: Nope! They are usually that way around, dunno why, they just are...
Many thanks for that, Great Aunt Annie: yes, I did see it.
I was at North Weald when XH558 made one of a pair of farewell flights, this one a tour passing over the south of England, which was followed by another over the north.

Fortunately, it had provided much more of a show to remember when it took part in the 2015 Herne Bay Airshow!










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