Bamburgh castle in Northumberland is owned by the Armstrong family, the family with the engineering background that included Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft. Due to this a small area of the castle has been turned over to an aviation museum that includes a number of relics, some being A-W related such as Warwick fuselage wreckage and an Albemarle throttle quadrant but others such as a Spitfire section and Me110 tyres have been recovered from the local area. There are some pictures relating to the rest of the castle
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Many years ago around 1972 a group up north was planning to recover two Albemarle airframes trashed in a quarry but don't know if anything came of it. Maybe they were totally beyond recovery.
ReplyDeleteI know there was someone trying to build a cockpit section from remains recovered in a quarry so probably the bits that you recall. No idea how much progress was made and haven't heard anything for years.
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