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2 hours ago, DeeCee said:

Guy Martin's Spitfire U&Yesterday 

Only just seen this - Amazing! 

Remember mother telling me how she worked at Howard and Bulloughs in Accy assembling part of "Tail-End Charlie for the Lancaster bombers as a girl of about 18 when WW11 started

 

I used to work with a bloke who’d been a tail gunner on Lancasters. He could tell some stories ! The one about how they got attacked by an ME 163 rocket fighter was really funny. He saw the speck in the distance and thought it was an ordinary prop powered aircraft so he just kept scanning for other aircraft. When he finally looked back again the ME was right on top of them. Luckily the German pilot didn’t fire, maybe his guns jammed. He was shaking for the rest of the day.

 

Howard & Bulloughs we’re in a large conglomerant with Tweedale & Smalley of Rochdale and Platt Brothers of Oldham. When times got bad in the textile engineering game in early 1960’s one of them had to go and it was Tweedales. About 1,500 people lost their jobs. The other two followed them eventually.

I played as a young player on Tweedale’s pitch. It was brilliant, they had first class facilities.