‘Maverick’ at RIAT Fairford
Top Gun’s Manetick – Tom Cruise landed at Royal International Air Tattoo Fairford on Saturday. The Hollywood royalty visited the USAF Hercules C130 and the Osprey in the static line up.
OTD 1993 Ram raid and 140MPH car chase along A345 to M4 J15
On this day 1993 in the early hours thieves tried to ram raid Curry’s in Marlborough High Street. A car chase ensued with speeds of up to 140MPH between Marlborough and Junction 15 of the M$. Barry Leighton reported for the Western Daily press and our pics were used.
PFP OTD 18-3-1985 Lt. Cmdr. Clive Waghorn of the Royal Navy, and army Lance Cpl. Terry Gill at Brize.
Lt. Cmdr. Clive Waghorn of the Royal Navy, and army Lance Cpl. Terry Gillarrive back at RAF Brize Norton. A Royal Navy helicopter plucked an injured polar explorer from a blizzard-swept ridge in Antarctica, where he and a colleague had been stranded five days with only a tiny tent for protection. A Wasp helicopter from …
PFP A museum at Coate that’s no longer.
Coate Agriculture Museum opening 1984. The museum burnt down 31-12-2016 More pictures in my book Another picture another story.
PFP OTD 1991 Airman pulled a C130 Hercules with a red nose at RAF Lyneham.
PFP OTD Red Nose Day a team of Airmen pulled a Hercules with Red Nose at RAF Lyneham.
PFP OTD 1983 Fairford visit.
PFP OTD 1983 Mayor Cllr Mike Bawden and his wife Joyce, visit RAF Fairford for a tour of a B52 Bomber.
PFP OTD 2017
PFP OTD 2017 Ex England goalie David Seaman on the ice at Link Centre with wife Frankie, who was a professional skater in Dancing on Ice, and Christoper Boyadji and Zoe Jones who are British Champion bassed at the Link Centre.
Is it or isn’t it? Banksy appears in Old Town.
Is it or isn’t it? Banksy appears in Old Town on the side of the Old Bus Garage at the top of Eastcott Hill.
PFP On this day 2013
PFP OTD 2013 More tea Bishop. Bishop Lee Rayfield and Mayor Mick Bray at Fair Trade Tea Day at Steam.
Another picture another story. Yes another book
It’s Cyan, it’s square, it’s my new book “Another picture another story.” Another book from the Calyx Archive… Order now… Surrounded by my archive of about four million film-based and digital images that I have gathered over more than four decades of press photography in Swindon, I have discovered connections that run through the archive …