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Post by marktrower on Oct 29, 2015 12:28:33 GMT
the vulcan was in the air yesterday probably the last time ,it made me think of the everyday sight and sounds that i will never see ore hear again,like laid in bed hearing the pit horn at 6am shift change waiting for the sound of mark phillips coming home off nights playing tunes on his jota going through old cantley bends then passing my house he new i was listening was a long time friend and work colleague from starting at the pit a year later.the only sound that sends that tingle down my back today is on a night the lions at the safari park calling to each other,memories it must be a age thing
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Post by Harold on Oct 29, 2015 12:55:51 GMT
Where I grew up we used to have a fog horn which you could hear all over the town, a hand cranked siren which let the part time firemen know there was a shout, again heard all over the town, a flare with a very loud bang to call the local Lifeboat crew out. Sadly now all done away with and the RNLI and Fire crews use pagers. We also had a large lighthouse on an island just offshore which you could see sweeping round especially noticeable if it was a hazy night the beam filled the sky this has now been replaced with one of those flashing lights you see on the front of pushbikes well that's what it looks like to me. You can still hear the Church Bells every hour though, well at least until someone puts a complaint in about noise pollution. The closest thing we had to a safari park was the pub across the road from my Mums where you could fall asleep to the soothing sounds of drunks kicking the sh*t out of each other.
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Post by GordyBrock on Oct 29, 2015 13:05:18 GMT
The Vulcan Bomber, saw it at Southport Airshow many years ago. What an impressive sight as it came down low over our heads, then it climbed...the loudest sound I ever heard in my life...made your ears crackle...gone forever, sad really.
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Post by stevegbr on Oct 29, 2015 13:10:06 GMT
Watched the vulcan at Blackpool air show in August. What a impressive display.
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Post by marktrower on Oct 29, 2015 14:25:12 GMT
even my two granddaughters ran into the garden they live a stone throw from were its kept so they know the plane.just think the death and destruction they carried when i used to see them when i was there age and what they were built to do.
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Post by davefirestorm on Oct 29, 2015 20:51:11 GMT
Sadly no more Vulcan bomber,hard to believe it first flew in 1952.I lived near Gaydon airfield where the V bombers were based and although not based at Gaydon Vulcans would often land/takeoff and we'd hear that wonderful sound when in the school playground,happy memories indeed.
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Post by retrobarmy1 on Nov 1, 2015 9:31:47 GMT
I sat in the cockpit of the resident Vulcan at Norwich air museum a few weeks ago. It gave me great respect for the crews as I couldn't move more than a couple of inches in any direction without hitting some part of my body on some bit of kit. Respect. Mike
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Post by scania on Nov 4, 2015 2:41:31 GMT
I used to live beside a Catholic church, I was working nights and I had not taken into consideration the nusence the bell would cause me. The priest insisted that it had to be rung everyday for the midday angelus prayers as it was a tradition that had not been missed since the church had been build a hundred years or so previously, It also rang for funerals and before 10:00 mass on Sundays. The fecking thing drove me demented, I ended up moving and having do a long commute to work and eventually changed job over the long commute.
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Post by davefirestorm on Nov 4, 2015 8:35:43 GMT
Similar situation for me but a pain in the arse noisy neighbor,changed jobs to work nights then we moved to get away and the bastard moved himself 3 months after us
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Post by GordyBrock on Nov 4, 2015 9:18:28 GMT
I can empathize with you Scania, we moved house last year, the previous owner conveniently forgot to mention the bleedin' church bells from the Catholic church right opposite us. They're recorded on tape and sound artificially shite. They chime every morning for 4 minutes non stop for mass, twice at weekends, twice daily for the angelus bells, on the hour and half hour and for ages during funerals which thank god aren't that often. The priest lives next door but two to me and is a right miserable bastard, despite others complaining he won't compromise or even turn the volume down...I pity anybody who works nights in our village. Religion...pah. rant over
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