Day out at the Tower of London

On a glorious autumn day we had a half-term day out at the Tower of London to see the amazing display of poppies in the moat, unfortunately so did most of the rest of the population! I have never seen crowds like it, we should have known what to expect when we struggled to squeeze on to a tube for Tower Hill. So packed was the station when we got off that all the exits were left open and the announcer was exhorting everybody to exit the station as quickly as possible. Having got there it was almost impossible to get a view of the poppy filled moat as a veritable sea of humanity were all trying to do the same, the railings were lined with people several deep and the queues to get tickets and gain access to the Tower were enormous. Mercifully I'd had the forethought to purchase discounted tickets online a few days earlier and we were able to by-pass all the queues by going to the group entrance where we were granted access without any queuing at all, remarkable!

Dakota over Holme

Considering I haven't been to an air show this summer I witnessed my third flypast of the year at the 1940's weekend at the nearby village of Holme on Sunday, an excellent event again by the way. This time it was the turn of the C-47 Dakota of the Royal Air Force Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, which did a generous three passes, just as well because I was in a marquee for most of the first one.

Vulcan over Kings Lynn

I caught up with the Vulcan or rather it caught up with me, while on a shoot at Kings Lynn. It was on it's 'Cold War' tour heading for RAF Marham and passed to the south of where I was working, in the car park of the Norfolk Arena. I heard it for a long time before seeing it and even then it was along way away as it emerged from behind the stadium.