tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704425219270767105.post5320224579901674920..comments2024-02-27T10:23:30.029+01:00Comments on Conductor: Celebrations and memorials on September 11th 2011Susie Malletthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05134263396254528737noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704425219270767105.post-30167279447065255742011-09-15T09:40:06.594+02:002011-09-15T09:40:06.594+02:00What a nice personal Memorial Flight.
At least tw...What a nice personal Memorial Flight.<br /><br />At least two of them are painted as Spitfire IIs, which would be correct for the Battle of Britain (1940). Spitfire IIs were manufactured that far from where I write this, at the old Castle Bromwich <br /> Airfield. <br /><br />Years later, in the sixties, those Dinkies of yours were made by Meccano, at Binns Rd in Liverpool.<br /><br />All 'Made in Britain'. <br /><br />As Frank Hornby used to say, 'British toys for British boys' (he had been very keen on keeping the products of the Nuremberg toy manufacturers out of Britain in the years between the two wars). I myself grew up withinin a strong tradition of keeping anything German out of the country! Hence, I suppose, this week's very British anniversary, its pale-blue RAF Ensigns and now antique fly-pasts (weather permitting!)<br /><br />I was also made in Britain, in Essex in 1939, and grew up in the never-forgotten shadow of all this – that's how I know about such things.<br /><br />Not much to do with Conductive Education (not directly) but I am sure that all this will bring some interesting visitors to your site!<br /><br />Andrew.Andrewhttp://conductive-world.infonoreply@blogger.com