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    The only Lancaster to ever fly under the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

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    Nice story for you @Didley Squat ...

    WW2 gunner's son welcomes recovery of crashed bomber

    By Nic Rigby
    BBC News Online
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    Sgt Leonard Shrubsall was part of the seven man crew of a Short Stirling Bomber
    The son of a crew member of a World War Two bomber that crashed into a lake in the Netherlands has welcomed the Dutch government operation to lift it.

    The Short Stirling Bomber, based at RAF Downham Market in Norfolk, was lost returning from a 1943 raid on Germany.

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    Iron Workers from New York Local 40 and PANYNJ moving a section of the World Trade Center antenna into place. Photographed 1,650 feet above the streets of New York and 350 feet above the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

    These images of the erection of the antenna atop the North Tower of the original World Trade Center in 1979 were taken by Peter B. Kaplan, the fearless photographer who specializes in heights and construction views. The construction workers who erected the 360-foot antenna atop the WTC sometimes work above the clouds: one of Kaplan’s photographs captures the tops of the Woolworth and Empire State as the true “cloud piercers.”

    The original twin towers of the World Trade Center were flat-topped, with slightly different heights. The North Tower, the first to be completed, in 1971, was the taller of the two at 1,368 feet, so remained the world’s tallest building even after the South Tower was completed at 1,362 feet in 1973. Both were surpassed by the Sears Tower in 1974 at 1,451 feet.
     
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    From the days when you just turned up, 130,000?...:grin:

     
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    Having lived in the area for 16 years I have never seen a picture of the old South Tower of the Crystal Palace from this view in Westow Hill. Taken in the 1890s around the time my current house was built. It was one of two towers, the other was used as a test facility for dropping bombs at the start of the 2nd World War before being demolished...

     
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    Cheers Steels,
    BK716, with the serial / squadron code of HA - J, from 218 Squadron out of Downham Market arrived the squadron 13 days before on the 17th March 1943.
    The aircraft failed to return on the 30th Of March, 1943, from an operation to Berlin.
    The aircraft crashed at sea off Vlieland, Netherlands..

    Take off at 21:30hrs
    One of 3 aircraft lost from 218 Squadron that night.

    F/O JF Harris RAF +
    Sgt R Kennedy RAF +
    F/O HG Farrington RCAF +
    Sgt CA Bell RAF +
    P/O JM Campbell RAF +
    Sgt LRJ Shrubsall RAF +
    Sgt JFJ McCaw RCAF +

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    They shall not pass...

     
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    This is a great thread, 38 different short films of roads in the early 20th century and late 19th...

     
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    You'll like this one Soops...just a little bit before you were driving

     
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    Made a fair few of these when I was a kid, old prams and bits of wood from bomb sites were the main ingredients...

     
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