Mick and Anne Ure. Anne was a long-standing volunteer with the Brooklands Fire and Rescue Service (John Downey).
flight in a Chinook helicopter. Anne Ure died after a short illness on 29th
December aged just 55. Married to Mick, she first became a Museum volunteer over 20 years ago, when they both joined the newly-formed Brooklands Museum Fire and Rescue Service. Together with the rest of our Airfield Team, she helped manage the regular light aircraft fly-ins which were held on the old runway until 2003. Since then she cheerfully assisted Mick and other Museum personnel with in-house fire training and our ever-popular Emergency Services Day – not to mention running the air-side transport bus at the Dunsfold Wings & Wheels show for more than a decade, always greeting everyone with a friendly smile.
All of these irreplaceable people will clearly be
greatly missed by everyone who was lucky enough to know them and our thoughts are with their colleagues and families.
Julian Temple
AIRCRAFT FACTORY AND RACE TRACK REVIVAL
Museum Director Allan Winn holds the last truss bolt from the Wellington Hangar on 8th December. It will be cleaned and used as the last ‘golden’ bolt when the Hangar is rebuilt (Nigel Brecknell).
Update
Hangar are in remarkably good condition, with the uprights that had been standing in water the only parts needing substantial restoration. Two further coats of paint were applied and the first lorry returning the Hangar to the Museum delivered its load just before Christmas. Re- erection is now taking place, with the uprights and the northern roof trusses in position as this issue of the Bulletin went to press.
A major part of the Hangar slab was removed by the end of the year, revealing that much of the original Finishing Straight is intact underneath
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he dismantling of the Wellington Hangar was completed as planned before Christmas with the final bolt being ceremoniously undone on 8th December and all remaining parts transported to South Wales. Museum staff with photographer John Fisher visited the factory in Cardiff to check for ourselves on the progress of the restoration. The tagged elements were first shot-blasted before being swiftly protected with red oxide paint and then inspected for any damage that might require remedial work. We were pleased to see that most elements of the
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Restoration of the Hangar in Cardiff (Valerie Mills).
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