Quote from: Leman on 13 May 2016, 11:21:36 AM
if you believe this morning's news, the necessity to "moderate a northern accent." Whatever 'king next!!!

Good luck with that. People have been trying to moderate my accent for 48 years. A fair few have left with bloody noses - metaphorically and on occasion physically.

  Well done that man!

Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 13 May 2016, 12:58:02 PM

Last time I was down that way my godparents (obviously am going back a long time, as do you still have godparents when you're an adult?) took me to Southsea and area to go to the D-Day museum and then another place which had a Short Sunderland inside the building. Best part of the day, that, climbing inside the Sunderland and getting to sit at the controls up in the cockpit. I just can't remember what the museum was called, and it must have been in the Portsmouth or Southampton area as it was under an hours drive from the D-Day place.

Probably the Royal Naval Air Service Museum at Yeovilton.

http://www.fleetairarm.com

Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 13 May 2016, 12:58:02 PM
Tank museum is a favourite of mine.

Last time I was down that way my godparents (obviously am going back a long time, as do you still have godparents when you're an adult?) took me to Southsea and area to go to the D-Day museum and then another place which had a Short Sunderland inside the building. Best part of the day, that, climbing inside the Sunderland and getting to sit at the controls up in the cockpit. I just can't remember what the museum was called, and it must have been in the Portsmouth or Southampton area as it was under an hours drive from the D-Day place.

Solent Sky museum in Southampton (round the corner from where I work, used to go there in my lunch hour, until subsidies were cut and the prices shot up!). I don't think it's a Sunderland, though, but one of the Civvie versions. Used to have a Folland Gnat parked in the car park, too.

Quote from: SerialLoser on 16 May 2016, 08:12:19 AM
Solent Sky museum in Southampton (round the corner from where I work, used to go there in my lunch hour, until subsidies were cut and the prices shot up!). I don't think it's a Sunderland, though, but one of the Civvie versions. Used to have a Folland Gnat parked in the car park, too.

Yes, you could just be correct - more thank likely, in fact. Looking at the photos on their website, and on google, it seems to match what little I can remember of the place. In fact all I can remember was the fact there was a big flying boat inside a building and I got to go inside it.
I was sure it was a Sunderland ... but obviously it wasn't.
Thank you for the info, as it has been plaguing me for years trying to find out where it was that I'd been taken to as a kid.

I don't remember there being a '17 at Duxford? 

Two now: One on the ground, one in US hanger!

Quote from: mad lemmey on 18 May 2016, 03:49:38 PM
Two now: One on the ground, one in US hanger!

I feel a visit to Duxford coming on.....