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Aug 1979. David Hourston (my son) takes a close look at a Fairey Albacore's Bristol Taurus engine on Mel Fea Hoy. The aircraft crashed 26 June 1942. Its pilot, Sub Lt James Leggatt RNVR, was killed.
(Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's former abode, Bunertoon, is just visible at top centre. Mucklehouse below and to the right of it.)
The crash and the photo are separated by 37 years. The photo and today are, amazingly, already 31 years apart. The engine continues to moulder away.
View Large VersionPicture added on 26 April 2010 at 21:01
Hello Dave,
I've checked the box of slides this one was in, and all the shots I took in Hoy that time are dated the same: Aug 1979. And the writing looks very much as though it was done contemporaneously, ie as soon as the slides came back from processing. A puzzle.
Dad
I've checked the box of slides this one was in, and all the shots I took in Hoy that time are dated the same: Aug 1979. And the writing looks very much as though it was done contemporaneously, ie as soon as the slides came back from processing. A puzzle.
Dad
Added by Ian Hourston on 03 May 2010
By the way David, I think the wind has got up the back of your jersey; I'm sure Mum never had an illicit liaison with Quasimodo.
Added by Ian Hourston on 03 May 2010
Hi Dad. It is a puzzle because I would have had a short back and sides by then, and understood what contemporaneously meant! :-)
I was looking at the lump too - I also put it down to wind (external), but then again I don't remember it being a windy day so it must be my left shoulder blade.
D
I was looking at the lump too - I also put it down to wind (external), but then again I don't remember it being a windy day so it must be my left shoulder blade.
D
Added by David Hourston on 05 May 2010
Hoy and Walls
Are you sure that was 1979? I was in the RAF by then so would have had slightly less hair (but still much more than I do now!) D