Aldergrove’s salvage dump,
The many happy hours I spent there in the late 1940s. Pride of place was a Sunderland; how did they get a Sunderlnd to scrap itself at Aldergrove? plus assorted Halifaxs, Lancasters, Oxfords, Spifires and IIRC, a Walrus.
My father was a pilot on 202 Sqn Halifaxs doing the same job. I lived on the Station and having seen the latest, slide along the runway, or, spear into the mud I would be chased away from exhibit 'A' by the SPs until they had defuelled it.
I can remember a juvenile plan to convert one of the Sunderlan's floats into a boat, drag it down to Lough Neagh and sail it but my father was posted before completion..
I also lost my first love; Deidre Judkins, are you there?