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Old 9th Apr 2023, 15:27
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Originally Posted by DaveReidUK
I can't get too worked up about some of the ridiculous criticisms on that thread:



Really ???



I'd say they satisfy the criteria for a memorial. The BBC would appear to agree.

Smith's Lawn airfield memorial unveiled by Duke of Edinburgh

​​​​​​I don't consider the BBC, especially its recent crop of regional reporters, to be suitable arbiters in such matters.

But I do give credit to the BBC scribe here who picked up on Mr Bannerman's organisation's characteristic hyperbole, describing old airfields as "phenomenally brilliant places which have benevolently revolutionised everyday life."

The main beneficiaries of Smith's Lawn, it seems to me, were the Royal Family.


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