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Post by eye2eye5 on Aug 17, 2020 22:05:21 GMT 1
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Post by viscount on Aug 18, 2020 8:56:34 GMT 1
Be aware that to try and view this video appears to cost at least £1.99.
If the link had not been posted a regular and respected member, the link would be deleted as blatant advertising for personal gain - indeed still may be once Admin get their heads together.
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Post by robaero on Aug 18, 2020 10:11:00 GMT 1
Be aware that to try and view this video appears to cost at least £1.99. If the link had not been posted a regular and respected member, the link would be deleted as blatant advertising for personal gain - indeed still may be once Admin get their heads together. I'm sure that you yourself either on the old forum may have put together an interesting feature mentioning about ghosts that used to haunt the old Airport. |
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Post by airboejet on Aug 18, 2020 11:06:05 GMT 1
I watched it last night directly of youtube and there was no cost have a look at Ghost Dimensions SE3 Ep10 haunted airport it’s about the Jetstream 748 Britannia and the other old one which I have forgotten the name of the ex shell aircraft it also has a brief history of the airfield and possible ghosts that have been seen , if you are into that type of thing it’s good and not faking or over the top shouting etc
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Post by viscount on Aug 18, 2020 11:51:28 GMT 1
Not a subject that has any interest to me at all. Should I write anything on the subject, it would to debunk the whole matter.
However, there certainly has been a very readable article some (very) long time ago on the subject of ghosts at Speke Airport, written (I hope I'm right) by Dave Smith and published in a Christmas edition of a glossy Aviation monthly (Air Pictorial comes to mind)? I know Dave Smith used to look-in on NWAN frequently, but don't know if he still does? If anyone has the article filed away, PM me a scan and I'll post while there is an apparent interest in the topic.
As 'Airbojet' has offered an alternative route to viewing the clip, we will leave this thread alone and not delete it as threatened. Perhaps someone could PM me with the 'free' link, so that I can insert that into the opening post? The aircraft "Airbojet" was struggling to name is a Percival Prince - which he knew all time!
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Post by eye2eye5 on Aug 18, 2020 12:50:34 GMT 1
Sorry Viscount, there was no implied charge when it was initially aird last night.
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Post by airboejet on Aug 19, 2020 12:45:53 GMT 1
The Percival Prince that’s it thanks to Viscount for putting me straight I had Proctor and Prentice in my mind but knew it wasn’t them
Richard
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2020 22:03:57 GMT 1
 A few years ago now, I put this photo up on one of the Speke nostalgia threads. But for Photobucket, it would still be there. At the time, I casually mentioned that there was an unexpected figure in the photo. Allow me to tell you more. At about the time I took this photo, (ca 1960), my father was getting into photography, so he would develop both the films and the photos. I would often go into the darkroom with him, because as a young teen, seeing the photo develop before my eyes fascinated me. Such was the impact for both of us on seeing this photo being developed that I still broadly remember the conversation all those years later. "Who's that in the photo?" he asked, as the photo was developing. I looked closely under what was just a dim red lamp and said "I don't know." Now the one thing which bugs we aircraft photographers is having something or someone in the frame which is not an aircraft, isn't it? I had no choice about the steps, used incidentally for Doves and Herons in those days, because this photo was taken with a simple box camera, so no chance to adjust the frame and thus no chance to avoid the steps, but the person coming around the corner would have been gone in a few minutes and I would normally have waited for this to happen. The aircraft clearly wasn't going anywhere, so a few more minutes would make no difference. At the time, the fire station was just to the left of No 1 hangar as seen in the photo, facing the river. Although a fireman at the time, my father never worked at the airport fire station, because it was operated by the Ministry of Aviation, although he knew the firemen, because they went to the airport for training from time to time. He did not recognise the person in the photo, though to be fair, it is little more than a silhouette, although close examination of the figure appears to reveal a man in some sort of uniform. A fireman going off duty perhaps? I suggested to my father, who thought that it was unusual. Cars were still something of a rarity in those days and often those who had cars would give their colleagues a lift. Fireman finish duty at the same time, so would tend to leave together. So there it is. A fireman finishing his shift and going home - or something else? |
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Post by vanguard on Aug 21, 2020 10:33:39 GMT 1
Just looking at your photo Barry could it be one of the airport police coming back from a walk round/patrol  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2020 14:23:13 GMT 1
Just looking at your photo Barry could it be one of the airport police coming back from a walk round/patrol That thought occurred to me as well, but the airport police were no friends of ours, so I would have beaten a hasty retreat if that had been the case - especially if it was Sgt d'Arcy, although I don't think he ever moved far from the terminal!  |
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