Sunday 19th October 2003 (UD03/17)
I have a copy of the Death Certificate of Mr Mosey which shows he was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire in 1904 and died in retirement at Nether Stowey, Bridgwater 23rd February 1979. This was a surprise to me I thought he was much older - but then as a lad at school anyone who was more than 20 years older than me was ancient! Perhaps being known as 'the old man' gave him a certain seniority. Thanks to Tony Walsh and Richard Statham for the information.
Saturday 21st June 2003 (UD03/10)
For those of you who have an interest in such things - these pages are coded longhand - I do not use an HTML editor because they insert loads of code of their own - making it very difficult to decipher and make amendments. So to Matrix fans - if you see a glitch in the code just remember that this is a handwritten virtual site and the "White Rabbit" could appear at any time!
Tuesday 13th May 2003 (UD03/08)
This anecdote has been contributed by Richard Statham - it focuses on Mr Pfaff one of the teachers on the 1950 photo. "Peter Pfaff married, I think it must have been Miss Loxton - no scandal, all above board - and left to join the Fleet Air Arm. That would have been in about '51 or '52, but I'm not sure. When I was learning to fly in the RAF I did a cross-country flight from Tern Hill to Syerston, which had been a Naval Air Training station at one time and in the "line book", a book of photos and sayings of the various courses that went through training there, whose photo should I find but Peter's. I understand he was killed deck landing, a Highly Dangerous Thing To Do, though in flying terms the pinnacle of pilot skill, particularly in those days with no angled deck or "meat ball" to guide you down to the deck, just a guy with a couple of ping pong bats!" (Richard will update this if he manages to uncover a little more.)
Thursday 24th April 2003 (UD03/03)
Some of you may have noticed that I am putting extra information about the pictures in what is called the 'Alt' tag in my coding - this is revealed when you let your mouse hover over the thumbnail pictures (assuming you have 'hover' enabled). It is usually a description of the picture - who is in it etc, the file name (in some cases) and the size of the larger picture and number of bytes - this gives an indication of how long it might take to appear on the screen. Again I would be grateful if you could let me know of any information I could add or if you disagree with anything I have included. I have no current plans to include a description under each picture as this takes more time than I have a available. Finally in the unlikely event that you find a bad link please let me know.