Petwood Hotel, Home of the Dambusters & RAF Waddington visit

[Ian Raleigh]

Thought I'd share a little visit I went to in Lincolnshire!

Visited Petwood Hotel for two days and was a 49 Squadron Re-Union where a group of RAF Bomber Command old timers
veterans got back together and share their stories during World War II in the surroundings of Petwood
in Woodhall Spa in Lincolnshire, A grand place to visit. Home of the Dambusters by the way.


Pictures to follow :facepalm:

 

[Ian Raleigh]

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You don't see hotels like this anymore :|

Petwood being built!!

Our view from the bedroom window! Main entrance of the hotel.

Barnes Wallace! The only surviving prototype Dambuster mine.


The Petwood Gardens!

Inside the hotel and the 617 squadron bar.

617 Dambusters Memorials in Woodhall Spa, the black on is newly erected and for the 'modern day Dambusters'

More to follow........

 

[highlandsflyer]

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Very cool.

 

[Ian Raleigh]

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The visit to RAF Waddington which has a little museum housed within the base and in the museum is the parts of a crashed Avro Lancaster and other good stuff

Looking around the actual crashed Lancaster knowing all the crew perished was very emotional to say the least.

Browning 303 machine gun. Fitted to most Fighter & Bomber Command aircraft.

Radio equipment as fitted in WWII Bomber Command aircraft.

AWACS! These can be seen flying around the Lincolnshire skies on a daily basis.

Nuclear fallout suit.

Model Avro Vulcan.

Model Nimrod.

Miniature[not real] Nuclear Bomb.

RAF Canberra Bomber.

Thanks for looking.

 

[highlandsflyer]

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I remember Vulcans flying over when I was a kid, beautiful things.

 

[Elysarian]

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I hope you visited the sweet shop opposite the larger of the memorials while you were in Woodhall!

It's owned by a rather gorgeous redhead

(but then I would say that, she's my wife!)

Advanced warning to anyone else though: she doesn't mind people parking their bikes outside so long as they're her customers (tell her Paul said it was ok)... gets a bit narky when they're only going to the cafe next door

 

[Ian Raleigh]

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I hope you visited the sweet shop opposite the larger of the memorials while you were in Woodhall! It's owned by a rather gorgeous redhead (but then I would say that, she's my wife!)

So thats the one who tried it on :shock: Woodhall Spa is a nice quite place to visit.

Whilst looking at the 617 SQD memorial someone had stuck small yellow stickers on it which had
foreign writing on them I removed the lot off the memorial, the writing was some kind on Islamic stuff!

 

[highlandsflyer]

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If you have a pic of one of those stickers I can tell you what it means.

 

[Ian Raleigh]

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If you have a pic of one of those stickers I can tell you what it means.

I screwed them all up and binned them mate but one visitor said the stickers read 'All soldiers should die & go to Hell'