Just thought you would all like to know - Page 3

cash_13 · 25-07-2008, 05:45 PM

Sunday dawned and we headed for the first of the trips to the cemeteries as it was overcast and then in the afternoon we went down to the coast heres a few more of our favorite beach Longues sur mer bellow the battery's nice sand and loads of rock pooling and we even found the remains of either a truck or a half track there going from the metal

This is going to take ages to get all these phots posted on here so you will have to bear with me as I am moving my daughter tomorrow and then set off for the ferry to France tomorrow evening at 6pm as I have a collection from Seville in Spain to get back to London by Thursday....

I will post some pics in the meantime as best my memory serves me be as accurate as possible

Regards Lee

cash_13 · 25-07-2008, 05:56 PM

more pics

cash_13 · 31-07-2008, 10:13 PM

Just a few more to go.......tonight

Sorry its taking so long only I have only just got back from Spain and am off again tomorrow....

Lee

cash_13 · 31-07-2008, 10:47 PM

Rich Payne · 31-07-2008, 11:14 PM

Lee, I've just read for the first time about your drive to Dover. Are you sure you missed all the speed cameras ?

It might be worth having a look here :-

UK Speed Camera Database. Check to see if you have been caught speeding

Rich

cash_13 · 01-08-2008, 12:04 AM

I do between 60, and 80,000 miles a year Rich and have a Tom Tom with all the lastest map share and speed camera data base and a Road Angel professional....

I dont make a habit of it but when needs must!!!!.......and before anyone says anything its not clever!

By the way thats my son not me!!!...........

Rich Payne · 01-08-2008, 12:18 AM

You don't have to explain to me, Lee. I know only too well the "I'm going to miss the ferry" feeling . I used to bounce my old K100 off the rev limiter quite regularly down the M26.

That link has been causing some concern over on the 'Real Classic' forum, some of the old blighters fell for it.

I typed in the number of a Raleigh Runabout that I couldn't put back together about 35 years ago and it said I had been clocked at 81.4 mph on it ! I'd have kept it if I'd known it was that quick !

More seriously, did you notice that cameras are springing up all over the French RNs ? Recent installations by the look of it and not just aproaching villages either.

cash_13 · 01-08-2008, 01:11 AM

Yes coming from a bike history like mine its hard not to speed but most of the time I am in my trusty Merc Sprinter and its my diesel so I plod along at 60 loaded and 70 unloaded to save on wear and tear......thats why my wife dont like me driving the old M3 cos I have a lead foot, and she prefers the sedate wafting of the barge as we call her

Check this link out for free updates for sat navs pockets pc's etc its better than the tom tom stuff and you dont have to subscribe

Pocket GPS World Forums-Windows Mobile - Pocket PC/Smartphone

spidge · 01-08-2008, 03:22 AM

Hi Lee,

Great photos. Particularly the farmhouse. What a great place.

Have been really time poor lately so will have to catch up with the photos.

Thank s for all the detail. Must have been a most enjoyable holiday.

Cheers

Geoff

spidge · 01-08-2008, 05:39 AM

Hi Lee,

Thank you for the photos.

This is the digital record available for P/O Frost at St Desir War Cemetery off the internet from our National Archives.

http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imag...43275&I=1&SE=1

It gives all aircraft that he has flown as well.

Tiger Moth
Harvards 1 and 2
Masters 1 - 2 -3
Spitfires 1 -2
Hurricane 1V
Typhoon
Oxford

FROST, John Thomas Naldrett - (Pilot Officer); Service Number - 412514; File type - Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Typhoon MN 719; Place - Vimoutiers, France; Date - 20 August 1944
http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp

31-07-2008, 11:14 PM	#25 (permalink)
Rich Payne Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 735	Lee, I've just read for the first time about your drive to Dover. Are you sure you missed all the speed cameras ? It might be worth having a look here :- UK Speed Camera Database. Check to see if you have been caught speeding Rich __________________ 1939 ex-BEF Norton WD16H restoration detailed on http://www.wdnorton.nl/

01-08-2008, 12:04 AM	#26 (permalink)
cash_13 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Coulsdon Surrey UK Posts: 235	I do between 60, and 80,000 miles a year Rich and have a Tom Tom with all the lastest map share and speed camera data base and a Road Angel professional.... I dont make a habit of it but when needs must!!!!.......and before anyone says anything its not clever! By the way thats my son not me!!!........... __________________ My website www.leefinneyracing.com

01-08-2008, 12:18 AM	#27 (permalink)
Rich Payne Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 735	You don't have to explain to me, Lee. I know only too well the "I'm going to miss the ferry" feeling . I used to bounce my old K100 off the rev limiter quite regularly down the M26. That link has been causing some concern over on the 'Real Classic' forum, some of the old blighters fell for it. I typed in the number of a Raleigh Runabout that I couldn't put back together about 35 years ago and it said I had been clocked at 81.4 mph on it ! I'd have kept it if I'd known it was that quick ! More seriously, did you notice that cameras are springing up all over the French RNs ? Recent installations by the look of it and not just aproaching villages either. __________________ 1939 ex-BEF Norton WD16H restoration detailed on http://www.wdnorton.nl/

01-08-2008, 03:22 AM	#29 (permalink)
spidge Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 8,044	Hi Lee, Great photos. Particularly the farmhouse. What a great place. Have been really time poor lately so will have to catch up with the photos. Thank s for all the detail. Must have been a most enjoyable holiday. Cheers Geoff __________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm

01-08-2008, 05:39 AM	#30 (permalink)
spidge Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 8,044	Hi Lee, Thank you for the photos. This is the digital record available for P/O Frost at St Desir War Cemetery off the internet from our National Archives. http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imag...43275&I=1&SE=1 It gives all aircraft that he has flown as well. Tiger Moth Harvards 1 and 2 Masters 1 - 2 -3 Spitfires 1 -2 Hurricane 1V Typhoon Oxford FROST, John Thomas Naldrett - (Pilot Officer); Service Number - 412514; File type - Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Typhoon MN 719; Place - Vimoutiers, France; Date - 20 August 1944 http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp __________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm

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