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[Orcs]

Among other "improvements" postwar bombsites became urban car parks, or venues of ad-hoc cycle speedway clubs.

In my home town of Ilford, the Super Cinema took a V1 strike.
Postwar the site was rebuilt as the glamorous new C&A store.

Slightly further north the Fairlop Oak Pub's rubble became home to several cycle speedway groups.
When the New Fairlop Oak was built, a fundraiser constructed a track on the edge of the old Fairlop airfield, and the action shifted out there.

I grew up in Goodmayes just outside of Ilford.  Our house had a crack up the outside wall from where a bomb landed in the Goodmayes Park. The crack was still there when we sold the house on my parents death in 2010.

[T13A]

Hi FSN

A Troop of Centurions from 6th Royal Tank Regiment

The tank in the middle doesn't look right to me, not 100% sure that it is in fact a Centurion........just maybe it's a.......

Cheers Paul

[fsn]

  

Even covered with foliage the beauty of the Centurion is quite distinctive!

[fsn]

Even disguised as a fish.





Painting competition 2022.

[Raider4]

Even disguised as a fish.

Aaargggh, my eyes!

That is quite horrible.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Well there was an attempt to make a DD version, it didn't work !

[T13A]

Hi

I the 1970's 4RTR's Chieftain's  still had 'eyes' on either side of the turrets, it was a 4RTR thing. 

Cheers Paul

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Dates back to 1917 - Chinese Labouers decied the Mk IV's need eyes otherwise they couldn't see where they were going !

[Steve J]

Mad, but pretty cool nonetheless .

[Ace of Spades]

I like a bit of 'nose art', pin-ups and names on planes and fighting vehicles. I even like the Korean War 'Tiger' paint jobs and fish-tail exhausts on motorcycles but this.... my god.
It's blasphemy really...

Cheers,
Rob

[fsn]

Well there was an attempt to make a DD version, it didn't work !

Well played Sir.

[Orcs]

Well there was an attempt to make a DD version, it didn't work !

I  had a  couple of girlfriend's who were DD versions.  They worked well

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

I  had a  couple of girlfriend's who were DD versions.  They worked well

Alus knew Orcs wuz crude 

[fsn]

Sometimes, you find very odd things going through the archives.  This is the crew of a Pan-Am Boeing 747 posing on an abandoned Iraqi T-54-55 in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War, with burning oil wells behind them.

[Steve J]

Bizarre!