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Long before Hull first became a seaport in the 12th century when the monks of Meaux built a quay at the junctions of the River Hull and Humber. Below is a picture of the original entrance to the Dock from the River Hull. The remnants of a filled in Queen’s Dock in the...

Ghostly Spirits of RAF Elsham Wolds This is a story told by my late father who served with the Royal Air Force. Dad was a career officer not a ‘hostilities only’ and served before and throughout WWII and for sometime afterwards. He didn’t believe in ghosts but after...

A Knife to Remember A short PC George Thomas story by HM Stevens Winter was giving way to spring so the night time temperature wasn’t too bad for the ungodly hour of 2 o’clock in the morning. There was still a slight chill which had come rolling off the nearby...

The Haunting Reflections of a WWII Lancaster Bomber Crew As the Air Ground Radio operator, I had been looking forward to a really busy weekend with numerous marques of aircraft flying into Sandtoft aerodrome, on the occasion of the airfield’s 80th anniversary of...

Day 2 of the 80th Anniversary Fly In As dawn broke I drove along the winding country lanes of North Lincolnshire towards Sandtoft feeling jaded. I’d hardly slept, my mind in whirl trying to find reasonable explanations for what had occurred the day before. I had been...

The Veritable Rollason Condor a true British Classic Vintage Aircraft We all remember ‘the dogs we’ve loved’ as a well known saying much bandied about by the canine loving fraternity. I’m sure that readers will agree the same can be said of aviators and their...

Over the week-end of 10th/11 June 2023 Breighton hosted a group of intrepid aviators from the south. Members of the Fleet Air Arm Squadron took the opportunity of the great weather we are currently experiencing and came along to see for themselves that there is life...

We’ve all heard of the famous Winchester rifle as depicted in the above photograph. A weapon that features in just about every western movie we’ve seen, well certainly those western movies post the single shot musket era of the Davey Crockett days. Now how many of you...

An autobiographic tale of an adolescent’s adventure aboard a distant water trawler sailing out of Hull in the 1960’s to the Northern fishing grounds around Bear Island in the Arctic. Contrary to common belief Hell is not a hot place but freezing cold! I was up so...