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De Havilland Dragon Rapide DH-89A G-AHAG RAF RL944
This Aircraft was built by Brush Coachworks Ltd which was at Loughborough in Leicestershire Brush Coachworks Ltd, DH89A in the livery of Scillonia Airways and is based at Membury airfield in Berkshire
A number of Rapides were used during WWII to provide internal flights under the control of National Air Communications
Photo taken at Old Warden Shuttleworth Military Air Show 31st May 2025
HAA_6805
Damselfly resting at Lavell's Lake, near Dinton Pastures Country Park., Berkshire.
DCR's 56103 and 56301 with empty stone wagons heading from Willesden to Merehead Quarry.
Locomotives: DC Rail Freight Class 56s 56103 and 56301.
Location: Southcote Junction, Reading, Berkshire.
Known locally as 'the cricket pitch', also containing 2 football pitches and mostly - our neighbourhood dog-walking ground. (Which makes it appear so often in my stream, possibly 80% of all 'nature' shots I take).
But it's usually the sky that makes me stop and take a snap, as is definitely this case.
The Postcard
A postcard bearing no publisher's name that was posted in Lowestoft using a 3d. stamp on Wednesday the 9th. August 1967. It was sent to:
Mr. & Mrs. Young & Family,
12, Salcombe Road,
Newbury,
Berks.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Having a good holiday
and fine weather apart
from one day.
Hope Mrs. Y. feels her
old self again.
Went to see the Sound
of Music last night, it
really is lovely, isn't it?
Love to all,
Mavis, Bob & Ann
McNaught."
The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay written by Ernest Lehman, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.
The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp, and is set in Salzburg, Austria.
It is a fictional retelling of her experiences as governess to seven children, her eventual marriage with their father Captain Georg von Trapp, and their escape during the Anschluss in 1938.
Filming took place from March to September 1964 in Los Angeles and Salzburg. The Sound of Music was released in the United States on the 2nd. March 1965.
Initial critical response to the film was mixed, but it was a major commercial success, becoming the number-one box office film after four weeks, and the highest-grossing film of 1965.
By November 1966, The Sound of Music had become the highest-grossing film of all-time, surpassing Gone with the Wind, and it held that distinction for five years. The film was popular throughout the world, breaking previous box-office records in 29 countries.
It had an initial theatrical release that lasted four and a half years and two successful re-releases. It sold 283 million admissions worldwide, and earned a total worldwide gross of $286 million.
The Sound of Music received five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Since its original release, the film is widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time.
In 1998, the American Film Institute (AFI) listed The Sound of Music as the 55th. greatest American film of all time, and the fourth-greatest film musical.
In 2001, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
A slip of the tongue - Christopher Plummer accidentally said the word "Captain" to Julie Andrews during the argument scene. Despite the error, producer and director Robert Wise thought it was amusing, and liked it so much, he kept it in the movie.
Colonial Action in Hong Kong
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 9th. August 1967, British colonial authorities in Hong Kong closed down three pro-communist newspapers, the Tin Fung Daily News, the Hong Kong Evening News and the Afternoon News.
Publication was halted pending the resolution of lawsuits, and five journalists were arrested on charges of sedition and the spreading of false or inflammatory reports.
-- An Earthquake in Denver
Also on that day, the city of Denver, Colorado, was shaken by the strongest earthquake ever recorded in that state.
Although nobody was injured, the 5.5 magnitude tremor was strong enough to shatter windows and to be felt within a 120-mile (190 km) radius. The previous record had been set on the 10th. April 1967 by a 5.0 magnitude quake.
-- Multiple Drownings in a Bus
Also on the 9th. August 1967, in Afghanistan's Kunar Province, 37 people drowned when the bus they were in fell off a 30-foot (9.1 m) cliff and overturned in a river.
Only three of the people on board survived.
