This is RAF Condover, photographed at lunchtime today.
It was used for flying from August 1942 to June 1945, operating three runways, mostly for training. Today most of the site is occupied by a riding stables, Berriewood Farm, who lease out much of the former runway area to a solar farm operator.
The control tower survives and is visible bottom right in the photo. It was up for sale a few years ago, and my understanding is it was indeed sold, although it still looks derelict.
According to Wikipedia and various other web pages, one hangar still survives. You will struggle to see it in the photo, but so far as I can tell it’s a blister hangar in amongst the industrial estate buildings towards the top right - it’s just about possible to make it out from Google Streetview. In the photo it’s just visible behind a large green/white industrial shed at the left-hand edge of the industrial area.
I’m happy to lose the point for the hangar if the judges consider that it is “one original hangar building” rather than “the original Hanger buildings” (there were originally ten and only one survives).
I shot this yesterday morning, it’s a steam loco on the Llangollen Railway, entering a tunnel just north of Berwyn Station.
It’s a bit of a crappy video, stitched together from the few moments when I wasn’t wildly swinging the camera around trying to spot the train amongst the trees!
I was getting pretty sure I’d not get one of these. A local farmer had agreed to let me film his harvest, and promised to let me know when it would happen. A few days later, out hunting cows, I spotted he had done the deed and I’d missed my chance.
So, yesterday after lunch, last battery running low, I was en route from one former RAF airfield to another, just past the village of Lyneal in Shropshire, when this beauty appeared behind a hedge. Luckily there was space to stop on the lane, and to try my first take-off from the car roof.
It’s a New Holland combine harvester, for anyone who needs to know such things. I might have had a chance to get it offloading into the wagon, but the battery was too low.
But lobbing a Mavic Air out of the driver’s window at 70mph didn’t quite have the effect I had hoped. If the police have retrieved the SD card they will have a great view of the resulting five vehicle pile-up.
22: Car boot sale
Claiming 2 points please, more than 50 stalls clearly identifiable.
Measham car boot sale, Leicestershire
23rd August at 8:10am
Take Off Location: 52.698048, -1.495436
This is a photo/video competition, so the item and/or bonus(es) do have to be evidenced visually in the photo/video submitted, not “according to” other sources.