ESTATES AND HERITAGE
Site improvements Recent grounds maintenance work included preparing much of the site for the Double Twelve Motoring Festival weekend and the Museum of the Year judges’ visit in June. Mowing, strimming and weed-killing by ProMow Landscapes contrac- tors being supported by the regular Wednesday work party team and others tidying and cleaning most areas of the Track – the Members’ Banking, Campbell Circuit, Finishing Straight and Test Hill. Temporary road repairs were carried out from 12th-14th June by contractor Nick Cox to potholes and badly eroded areas on the return roads (both part of the Brooklands Scheduled Monument) to the Banking from the Test Hill and also behind the Aircraft Park. Several new volunteers were recently wel-
comed to the team after recruitment by Sue Lewin who also enlisted more support from corporate volunteers, with staff from Enterprise Car Rentals, Brooklands College’s Estates Department and Surrey County Council’s Adult Social Care team all providing very useful extra volunteers on 14th June and 10th and 23rd July respectively. Before the recent heatwave, various outdoor aircraft exhibits were cleaned,
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Concorde ‘Delta Golf’ (by Farnborough-based contractors ‘Jetwash’ in mid-June using a sponsored scissor-lift) and the Vanguard and BAC 1-11. Further pressure washing of VC10 ‘Victor Mike’ was carried out by Robin Voice and completed by volunteers Colin Mitchinson and Graham Mantle on 20th June. Volunteer Mike
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Lynn has also cleaned Brooklands College’s two ex-RAF training airframes (Jet Provost and Jetstream) as well as continuing to reassemble and improve our Beagle 206. The latest buildings maintenance work in-
cluded volunteers currently restoring our now rare K6 phone-box outside the Press Hut and another team, led by Mike Warren, repaired and repainted the historic pre-war kiosk used by the car rides team in the Paddock. Alan Morris has repainted more of the ERA Shed while contractors and others, managed by Lee Harvey, have redecorated the Barnes Wallis bathroom in the Clubhouse and are also carefully adapting it for disabled use. Heritage work With some useful further funding from Elmbridge Borough Council and Historic England, the final stage of the Byfleet Banking track clearing work was completed by ProMow who tidied the work area then chemically treated any resurgent vegetation between 12th and 17th July. Mercedes- Benz World and M&S/Tesco landscaping contrac- tors should also soon remove and treat vegetation on their adjacent sections of this now much improved section of the historic motor circuit. Hawker Hunter T.7 XL623 – the last of 45 RAF
two-seat trainers built in the 1950s – has been a well-known landmark mounted on a 10-metre (30ft) high pole in Woking’s Crown Square since 1996 but, having heard last year that Woking Bor- ough Council intended to dispose of it, I enlisted the help of our friends in the Hawker Association
The Hawker Hunter being removed from its perch in Woking on 22nd July (Stefan Lange).
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