Day 44 2/8/19 Royston, (near Canterbury), to Cleve Hill, near Prescott Hillclimb.

Day 44 2/8/19 Royston, (near Canterbury), to Cleve Hill, near Prescott Hillclimb.

Had a bit of spare time today so we decided to visit the Duxford annexe of the Imperial War Museum which was only a short distance from where we were staying.

What we didn’t realise was how amazing the site was and we only had about 1.5 hours before we were on our way, we had about a 4 hour trip to our accommodation at Cleve Hill, near Prescott Hillclimb.

We managed to visit hanger one at Duxford, there are 4 or 5, walk through the Concord and a couple of other planes before we had to get on out way. Will have to visit again.

Of we go, GPS lead us into the South until we eventually reached Cleve Hill. Fortunately Norman and Claire had got there first or we would have probably driven right past. Generally speaking we had a pretty good run although we did get caught in traffic a few times. The TA14 performed superbly and even sat in traffic did not heat up very much. Fortunately by now I have had plenty of practice at round-about’s and the traffic seems to just merge around you as visibility out of the Alvis to the rear is very limited, typical of most 40’s cars.

Off to Prescott tomorrow.

TA14 ready to depart

MELBOURN sign

Duxford Imperial War Museum

Maud with plane in entrance to Museum

Part of display in Airspace1

Look closely, "cut along dotted line in emergency"

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View inside Concord cockpit window

Electricians nightmare

Cockpit of Concord, this plane was only used for testing

Avro used during Berlin airlift

Lancaster Bomber

1914 Beardmore engine, copy of an Astro Daimler

Napier Lion

Outside display, you can book a flight on a number of historic planes

Maritta's first woven "Jesus" bar for when I go around round-a-bouts

Interesting sculpture

Followed by a Lagonda for a while

Antique aircraft of some type flying overhead

Building that caught Maritta's fancy

And a Church that did the same

Can't go past a thatched roof

Outside our accommodation for the next few days, two TA14's