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Hi to all our members ... We  would just like to draw your attention to the latest post on the following link... Thank you for your attention .If you have already responded to my note  on Chatbox  about this please ignore this sticky note ... Thanks  folks ....

http://www.tipf.co.uk/forums/topic/46369-important~-the-forum-its-future-and-finances/

Clicker and Ryewolf   ADMIN TEAM 

Regretfully we have to once again ask members for  some financial support in order to  keep TIPF  running till December 2023. The more pledges we have to become  FRIEND OF THE FORUM  the less the individual cost will be so  if you want this Forum to continue  please follow the link below  and decide  if you are able to  support us . Thank you all for your support in the past ... it has been appreciated  a great deal ...

https://www.tipf.co.uk/forums/topic/57184-202223-forum-finances-update-important-notice/

 Clicker and Ryewolf  ...  Admin Team 

Hi TIPFers 

I AM HERE AGAIN WITH THE  BEGGING BOWL TO ENSURE THE FORUM CAN KEEP GOING ... Please follow  below if you want to  support the continuation  of this Forum and  this  small but friendly community. 

As always your support is  both vital and appreciated ...

 Clicker and Ryewolf ...

https://www.tipf.co.uk/forums/topic/57184-202223-forum-finances-update-4th-july-2023/

 

REMEMBERING


FUJI

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I spent yesterday, welcoming visitors, then giving a presentation about life on our WWII Anti Aircraft Gun Site..

It is one of many that encircled Coventry soon after the devastating first Blitz, as part of the Gun Defended Area.

Not many folk know that the huge guns were fired by men, but all the Spotting, Height Finding, Predicting and Radar were operated by 

young specially trained ATS girls, all outside on the Command a Post roof or in a small Radar Van, no real shelter at all.

We have open days at the site about three times a year, in memory of these sometimes forgotten gun crews, we also remember the girls who manned the Searchlights and the Barrage Balloons.

The pic was taken with my Nokia 1020 phone camera, as I arrived on site .....it looks fine, but solid concrete buildings aren't the most welcoming of things.

 

FUJI

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Thanks for that Fuji  Reminded  me that my dear ol' Mum was in the ATS as a 18 year old in 1944 when she met my Dad who was  a Soldier  aged the same .. it looks  to be a dangerously open and vulnerable place  to be at that time ... Just read this and found it an interesting insight   to Coventry's war time history ...

http://www.historiccoventry.co.uk/blitz/damage.php

 about 16 pages worth !!

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