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Thirty nine years ago today-

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Hmm....dated April 1st. šŸ˜‰
Does anyone remember the spitfire on display at the cinema thatā€™s now the Ritz (Wetherspoons) late sixties I think. It was on Firth Road and you could actually sit in it. I think the Battle of Britain film was out in 1969 so probably around that time
 
Youā€™re right, certainly not on the roof. I seem to remember it on a roof but at first floor level with a metal gantry thing for access. A long time ago so I might have conflated two different occasions
 
Yes - Bluebird. Well-known to anyone growing up in the 1950s.

In 1995 my wife-to-be and I were on holiday in the Lake District and we went on a boat trip on Coniston and I found it quite chilling to think we may have been passing over the spot where Bluebird lay - neither the boat nor Campbell's body had been recovered at that time.
 
The location of Roman columns of various buildings are still marked on Bailgate, and you can go underground and view at least one of them.

Small fry, but there are still remains of the 2WW ā€œTank Trapā€ in the pavement on Nettleham Road near St Barnabas Hospice.