I've been to Wroughton three times. The first when flying in fully serviceable Wessex IIIs for storage/disposal when we disbanded 737 Squadron at Portland, then in the 90s in a SeaKing to load in up to the gunwales from the RN Public Relations Hangar (co-located with the RN ship model store with some fabulous scale models of warships going back many years) with visitor handouts, gizzits and
PR material for a carrier foreign deployment, then much later on a similar visit by car but when (lost) we entered a hangar to ask for directions and there was Stephenson's Rocket nestling in the open on a shipping pallet. Yes... the original Rocket right in front of us available to touch. It was being taken overseas, I think to Japan for a Science Fair. Amazing and enigmatic place on the hill is Wroughton; long may it remain accessible and in the public domain. pp.