Yes indeed, the Hemswell collection just suddenly closed a few weeks back - no warning, no attempt to save the aircraft. It was a miracle that the Lightning survived, but a disgrace that the Canberra didn't. The Hemswell museum was never exactly a huge success, partly because few people even knew it was there, and those that did, found that it was closed virtually all of the time. I guess we should sympathise if they couldn't manage to keep the museum running, but why didn't they at least try and save the aircraft?
Poor old Hemswell is now nothing more than a site for crappy flea market stalls - somehow, Richard Todd walking down that entrance road wouldn't look quite so convincing if they tried re-shooting the Dambusters movie there again (yes it was Hemswell they filmed the end scene at, not Scampton)
