Avro Lancaster East Kirkby

[Haselsh1]

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7889/46598666265_4421785f98_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2dZLm1r)Avro Lancaster at RAF East Kirkby Lincolnshire (https://flic.kr/p/2dZLm1r) by Shaun Haselden (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156648964@N02/), on Flickr

Avro Lancaster at the once active airfield of East Kirkby in Lincolnshire.


https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7868/33637404268_02495e2648_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/Tfquo1)Avro Lancaster of RAF East Kirkby Lincolnshire (https://flic.kr/p/Tfquo1) by Shaun Haselden (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156648964@N02/), on Flickr

The same aircraft shot during September 2016 using a cheap Nikon D3300 with its standard zoom.

Some digital manipulating has of course been used.

Love the old airfields of Lincolnshire and East Anglia with this one housing this very aircraft that frequently does taxi runs.

[Landloper]

Thanks, Shaun. Looks fab!

[Lawrence001]

Frequently go near there on the A16 to my mum in Louth and always want to pop over for a look round.

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[Andy831]

My mum helped to build the "lanc" during the war at Avro's Chadderton factory.

[Oddball]

Nice pic !!! East Kirkby is a great place to go if you have a few hrs and enjoy story boards . A wealth of reading linked to interesting exhibits and relics from WW2 , that you need time to soak up , IMO!!

And 'Just Jane' the Lanc ,that the Panton Bros saved from scrapping all those yrs ago, and which is currently held in reserve for the BBMF ,if anything (god forbid) happened to the present one !!

[Haselsh1]

I'm fairly sure that at some point in this aircraft's life it used to be the gate guardian at RAF Scampton up here in Lincolnshire. I have a memory from the 70's of it being at the main gate surrounded by an Upkeep bomb as well as a Tallboy and Grand Slam type. Always did wonder where the hell it disappeared to.

[Haselsh1]

Frequently go near there on the A16 to my mum in Louth and always want to pop over for a look round.

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Love Louth Lawrence and go there quite often as we live only about seven miles from there.

[Lawrence001]

Love Louth Lawrence and go there quite often as we live only about seven miles from there.Which direction, my mum's in Manby. You'd get some interesting photos on the old airfield there.

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[archiesdad]

Nice pictures.

[Haselsh1]

Which direction, my mum's in Manby. You'd get some interesting photos on the old airfield there.

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Yes you are quite right, there would be some great photo's to be had there but access is very limited. We live just a stones throw from the site of RAF Grimsby slightly over towards the coast and that old airfield gives loads of dramatic photo's. Also of course RAF North Cotes remains are less than two miles for us. Lovin' it ;)

[Lawrence001]

Yes you are quite right, there would be some great photo's to be had there but access is very limited. We live just a stones throw from the site of RAF Grimsby slightly over towards the coast and that old airfield gives loads of dramatic photo's. Also of course RAF North Cotes remains are less than two miles for us. Lovin' it ;)Never heard of RAF Grimsby. I know Donna Nook but that's just a bombing range I think.

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[Jimbo]

Like the digital manipulating - got just the right look like it was taken with colour film in the 1940s ?

[mikeyb]

We used to go watch the display at RAF Leuchars, my dad knew the local farmer so we just sat in the field looking straight down the runway.

Trees at the back of us meant that jets doing a flypast down the runway roared out of nowhere at VERY low level over our heads, awesome, pity it's now an army base [emoji853]

This is all I could fit in the frame of the Lancaster as it came over ( 500mm lens ) [emoji23] https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190601/71075941ea0bdaae735cf5806da4caea.jpg

[walpurgis]

We used to go watch the display at RAF Leuchars

When I was a lad, I was there when a Lightning did a supersonic boom right above us at 500 feet. That was something!

[mikeyb]

When I was a lad, I was there when a Lightning did a supersonic boom right above us at 500 feet. That was something!It sure was, that and the Widow Makers were a sight AND sound to behold

[Haselsh1]

Never heard of RAF Grimsby. I know Donna Nook but that's just a bombing range I think.

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RAF Grimsby was a Lancaster base on the very edge of the A16. In the early 1970's they ploughed a huge bypass road over the edge of the airfield. It started life as a Civil Air Guard airfield between the two wars flying Hawker Hinds and Miles Magisters before being taken over by the RAF. It is close to the village of Waltham but was officially RAF Grimsby.

[Haselsh1]

Fantastic memories. Through the 70's and 80's I used to spend lots of time shading under a fishing brolly at RAF Binbrook watching and photographing the last of the World's three Lightning squadrons. Must be an age thing because those summers were so bloody sunny and hot and so much fun and happiness. I remember the Lightnings when they were in unpainted silver aluminium and then painted green/grey camo but my favourite was the two tone grey finish. Absolutely amazing times really.

[Oddball]

I'm fairly sure that at some point in this aircraft's life it used to be the gate guardian at RAF Scampton up here in Lincolnshire. I have a memory from the 70's of it being at the main gate surrounded by an Upkeep bomb as well as a Tallboy and Grand Slam type. Always did wonder where the hell it disappeared to.

How right you are Shaun !! I knew about the Brothers buying her ,but had thought they did that much further back in time !!
Heres a history of 'Just Jane' https://www.lincsaviation.co.uk/history/history-of-the-lancaster.htm
You were lucky living in 'bomber country '!!! ;)

[Haselsh1]

Oh cheers for the link mate ;)