What's hanging in your study?

[Klenchblaize]

Aubrey Beardsley?

That was my first thought too!

K

 

[NoIDeer]

By my 4 year old grandson, shows Ted the teckel's most prominent features!

 

[wytonpjs]

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By my 4 year old grandson, shows Ted the teckel's most prominent features!

Loving the "blooded" jowls - state normal for a working Teckel. Thank heaven's mine cleans himself up by the time we get home and he clambers on to SWITBO's lap!

 

[kenbro]

Liphook.

It's now a s******e.

Grew up just down the road in Liss.

Coincidentally, also now a s******e.

That’s the place .
Wifey still has family living there but they’re dwindling…..it must be an age thing.
Saw George B in the Anchor several times.
Ken.

 

[olliehopes]

That’s the place .
Wifey still has family living there but they’re dwindling…..it must be an age thing.
Saw George B in the Anchor several times.
Ken.

Next time you're down this way, shout. We'll go for a beer/natter

I've moved a little further west since, hallways between afformentioned places and Winchester

 

[kenbro]

Next time you're down this way, shout. We'll go for a beer/natter

I've moved a little further west since, hallways between afformentioned places and Winchester

Hi,
Not sure we’ll go there again….we have an interest in a small piece of land somewhere between the back of the Green Dragon and Haslemere Rd.
Trying to sell the land for building and as another family member’s garden backs on to it they keep throwing a spragg in the works to hinder/stall the sale.
So relations are not the best just now!
If we go visit the Sis in law in Portsmouth I’ll give you a shout for sure.
Cheers, Ken.

 

[Donkey Basher]

Here’s some from different parts of “The Study”
The Lady paintings are embellished prints by Canadian artist Anna Rasumovskaya.
Some are by Wifey Ginny.
The ship photos are of a wreck that happened in the Menai Straits and the ship ended up with (As seen in pics) a broken spine.
The painting with the big tree is a village where Ginny was born in Hampshire, the pub. to the left was a favourite haunt of George Best at one time. Anyone know the village name?
Ken.

Liphook by any chance?

Oops - just read on through he thread & see Ollie has already bagged the prize

 

[sikamalc]

My small study, housing my book collection of mostly old books on Africa, Scotland and Natural history.
Along side a few of my other African memories and my authentic African mask collection.

 

[Stuart Mitchell]

My workshop is my study.

Some bits.

 

[Stuart Mitchell]

I also have this which has always intrigued me, an etching of Battersea Railway Bridge by Walter Greaves, bought in 1922 and gifted within a family in 1938.

As the note says; Walter Greaves was the son of the boat proprietor from whom J. McN. Whistler hired when living in Chelsea. he both rowed the great man on the river and was employed by him in his studio, and so learned to see things in Whistlers way, etc...

 

[Jagare]

Not my studie but my lounge.

 

[sh1kar]

Not my studie but my lounge.

Here's Johnny!

 

[Stuart Mitchell]

Rather nice Fallow and retro Black & Decker Workmate

 

[olliehopes]

Liphook by any chance?

Oops - just read on through he thread & see Ollie has already bagged the prize

Wouldn't exactly say knowing Liphook is a prize!

 

[sakoson]

 

[Foxyboy43]

Not my studie but my lounge.

Your moniker wouldn't be “Chopper” perchance?
Just curious…

 

[Len the dog]

Your moniker wouldn't be “Chopper” perchance?
Just curious…

Not the first time you’ve asked a man that eh?

 

[Foxyboy43]

Not the first time you’ve asked a man that eh?

Behave!

 

[Wapinschaw]

A few shots of some of the memories dotted through the house - all with stories

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Middle photo on the left, is that the Phantom that flew between the hangars at St Athan?

 

[wytonpjs]

Middle photo on the left, is that the Phantom that flew between the hangars at St Athan?

Might be

@Wapinschaw I was running a mixed RAF/Civilian Team conducting Major Servicing on RAF F4 FGR2 during 1985-87 and Sqn Ldr Guy Pearce was the Unit Test Pilot. An exceptional pilot (and only much later did i discover a deerstalker too), he was rightly extremely wary when taking the aircraft up on their first flight post depth maintenance. Thereafter, and especially during delivery flights from St Athan back to the RAF Units, he was a little more "racy" and took the F4 between the hangars as a measure of confidence in the Team's efforts. Interestingly, to my knowledge, he never did this with the Tornados from 10 Sqn maintenance. That photo is special as that's my wife in the foreground who had been spending the weekend (as usual) with me at our married quarter in Cardiff - she worked then at RAF Hendon (Supply Computing Centre) in London during the week.

Apart from concrete ballast AIM-120 missiles on the forward stations, the aircraft were "clean" for delivery fights and invariably with replacement engines fitted post maintenance, they were a little punchy. One on my most vivid memories from those days was going under an F4, tethered from its arrestor hook, whilst conducting full reheat runs on the ground to inspect the security of the restraint bolts after the base's detuner had been condemned - you could literally feel the sound turning you into jelly. Suffice to say H&S wasn't then what it is now!

At the start of the Gulf War the RAF F4 force was disbanded and resources diverted to Tornado and Harrier Squadrons. This is a picture on me on the pan at RAF Leuchars with the Stn Cdr watching as the last "diamond 9" flight of 228 OCU Phantoms flew the F4 farewell flight on 12 Dec 1990. I was privileged to be the last SEngO of 228 OCU/64 Sqn RAF.