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Saint Andrew's and All Saints Society

Blankney, Lincolnshire

Estate Church of St Oswald's

Monday, 2 April 2018 in 41m (8–3–26)

1260 April Day / Plain Bob Doubles

(being: 480 APRIL DAY – 4 extents, 780 PLAIN BOB – 6 extents & 60.)

1 Anne Hardwick

2 Yvonne A Woodcock

3 Tess Rowland

4 Michael Christie

5 Christopher C P Woodcock (C)

6 Bob Hardwick

Specially arranged and rung to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Air Force on 1st April 1918.

Here in Lincolnshire, the home of the RAF, we are privileged to regularly hear the distinctive roar of the Merlin engines from the Avro Lancaster Bomber based with the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at RAF Coningsby and to see the awesome sight of the Red Arrows acrobatic team practicing over their base at RAF Scampton, the home of the famous Dambusters. We are also honoured to have the new International Bomber Command Memorial & Centre which commemorates Bomber Command, this being ‘Bomber County’. Lincolnshire still plays an important part in the RAF with front-line bases at RAF Waddington & RAF Coningsby, and training at RAF College Cranwell.

Rung at the closest ringable tower to RAF Digby (originally named RAF Scopwick) which is one of the oldest RAF stations being opened on 28th March 1918, just three days before the official formation of the Royal Air Force.

To the east of Blankney stood the former RAF Metheringham which operated as a bomber airfield during the Second World War, between 1943 & 1946.

(No. 1 of 4)

(Rung also for the Lincoln Diocesan Guild)