Keep watching the skies... and you'll see a wartime flypast!
LOOK TO the skies above Brigg town centre this Friday and you will see a flypast of those three intrepid wartime planes that together did so much to achieve victory.
A Hurricane, Spitfire, and Lancaster from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight will fly over the town at around 7.20pm as part of the BASH Wartime Spectacular in the Brigg Servicemens Club.
We Meet Again is the theme of the 1940s night organised by Brigg Amateur Social Historians to celebrate VE day, with the Keith Baldwin Silk Stockings Swing Band, and members dressed in 1940s fashion and uniform - and doubtless in the odd pair of silk stockings themselves.
Although the function is ticket only, everyone is welcome to view the free fly past with the Lancaster in particular likely to make a splendid sight in the evening sky.
It was from airfields such as nearby Elsham that the bomber flew out over the North Sea night after night on a bombing campaign over Germany.
l If you miss Friday's event the RAF Kirton in Lindsey and Hibaldstow Association Reunion will also be having a flypast by the Hurricane and Spitfire on Saturday. There will be a service at Hibaldstow Airfield. Call 01652 653916 for details.
The full article contains 216 words and appears in Market Rasen Mail newspaper.
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Last Updated:
01 May 2008 4:06 PM
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Source:
Market Rasen Mail
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Location:
Market Rasen