Dave C Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 (edited) Any one interested ? or has a few £ to spare ?. Maybe good for the new SE's new club room annex http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/8239756.stm Edited September 6, 2009 by Dave C missed link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeEnfield Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 Any one interested ? or has a few £ to spare ?. Maybe good for the new SE's new club room annex http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/8239756.stm Cor,...........now all I need is either Ernie or the lottery to come up trumps...........:rofl: fat chance of either, I'm thinking, though. :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snapper Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 I think you'd use up a lot of your lottery. Looks amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 In the BBC link it mentions balloons being stationed there in WW1, it was also an important airship base operated by the RNAS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 My mate Colin has a small bit of info' on it here: http://sub-ex.blogspot.com/2006/08/capel-folkestone-batteries.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topdog Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 I've just shown Val and she has said 'No'......(sulk) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topdog Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 Val here: Only because he won't let me have a puppy!! Now We're even. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 Airships during the Great War opereted from Kent as part of the Dover patrol. Just up the road on the Godmersham Estate, outside Ashford, one of the beats on the shoot is called Airship. It is a narrow deep re-entrant, vaery shelterd. In the bottom is a ditch about 20 feet deep now by ten foot wide. The Airship gondola was lowered into the pit for servicng. there is a straaighgt run of about ten miles to the coast. http://www.firstworldwar.com/atoz/seascouts.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferretfixer Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 Any one interested ? or has a few £ to spare ?. Maybe good for the new SE's new club room annex http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/8239756.stm Im sure I saw an article on the news a few months back. About that top Observation bunker being restored & converted for the Coastguard. I may be wrong, unless there is another further along the clifftop. :??? Where Battleorders used to be based in Willingdon near Eastbourne. At the rear during WWI was an Airship mooring point also, so I was informed by an elderly local when I was up there a while back. I would think there would be more info at the local Council archives? should anyone wish to investigate? Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeEnfield Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 I think you'd use up a lot of your lottery. Looks amazing. Aye, but it would be worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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