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What a great place to stay! Is this exclusive to JLP staff or can the hoipolloi stay as well? (I am a loyal customer - does that count?!)

Nice one, you got lucky with the sky!

I believe the last Vulcan flight was in 2015 (photos below), they are all grounded as being no longer airworthy and someone told me yesterday it is because the parts are no longer available or can be manufactured. The volunteers do a great job keeping it running but yesterday's run was a bit slower as the previous one on Friday tore up some of the runway!

My house is about a mile from the airfield but the noise is still pretty loud, I remember a few years ago seeing a Vulcan from my bedroom window : it was so large and flying so slowly that it appeared to be suspended impossibly in the air like some alien spacecraft - then it went full throttle and into a vertical climb, rattling all my windows!

On Saturdays anyone is free to take a closer look and, I am told, for a modest donation can climb inside. Here are a few from earlier.

In some places they turn out to watch trains, here we gather for this:

Sorry Chris I just updated my comment as they are across the top as well! Another strange thing is that typing on my iPad I now get the click when I touch a letter only every now and then.

That would explain why I am getting more ads annoyingly popping up all over the place. Off-putting enough to question whether I will continue to use the site so often.

It’s a quiet place! There were a couple passing through so I just waited until they had gone. Just down the road Broadway on the other hand was heaving with people and cars but Winchcombe isn’t really a tourist destination despite its ancient buildings. There are lots of photographic opportunities so will return when I have more time.

It was our anniversary on Monday so I thought it would be nice to have a lunchtime meal in the hotel where we spent the first night of our honeymoon en route to Cornwall, many years ago. The only inn open in the centre of Winchcombe is the White Hart so a pub lunch in the garden, but although my memory of the place is hazy it didn't seem at all familiar. Almost next door is The George which still has a sign but has been converted to flats and houses, but that was it! A few years ago we revisited the Bay View Hotel in Port Isaac only to find it had been demolished, such a shame we have no photos from that time.

Anyhow here are some postcard snaps of Winchcombe from the day (without the cheesy family snaps):