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“Rocket-swift stories of the Air Force – on guard in a world of dazzling speed.”

From the back cover:

OFF!

With the speed-past-speed of the incredible planes he knows so well, these fine stories by Frank Harvey zoom the reader right into the middle of the Air Force. The present-day, up-to-the-minute Air Force – in which the P-38’s and P-47’s of World War II are already memories.

Already known to millions through his many appearances in “The Saturday Evening Post,” Frank Harvey here presents his first book. JET proves clearly that here is an author who knows what’s going on in the world of the air and knows how to present it in swift, hard, breathtaking fiction.

It’s a book for anyone who ever craned his neck when a jet flew by overhead.

(This panel is an anomaly. If it’s for later additions then you’d expect it to be at the end – yet this is a panel in amongst the others and quite close to the start of the alphabet. It doesn’t even appear to be service specific or reflect the civilians who lost their lives in Lowestoft during the Great War.)

I was visiting St Margarets Church in Lowestoft specifically to see the side chapel, dedicated to those who had lost their lives from the town in the Great War. The names of hundreds of them are written on panels down one side. I was here even more specifically to look for five names in particular – spread through-out the alphabet so that meant I needed good shots of at least five of the panels. Well I took pictures of them all, “just in case”. Not all are as sharp or framed as I might have liked and I definitely didn’t have time to thoroughly research all the names, (but who knows, I may come back!). So five panels are done, the rest are pot luck.

The Roll of Honour site has already made a start on trying to identify all the names in the chapel.
www.roll-of-honour.com/Suffolk/LowestoftStMargaretsChurch...

For more on each name see comments below.

Abbreviations used.
CWGC - Commonwealth War Graves Commission
SDGW – Soldiers Died in the Great War

Mutford was the Civil District for the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriage, (until 1935 - when it became part of the new District of Lothingland).

B.S. BREWSTER
G.W. ARMES
E.A. COOK
W.J. GORROD
F.W. HARVEY
G.E. HITTER
J.A. HOLLIDAY
R.G. HURREN
C. INNES
B.H.B. JENKINS
F.J. PINKNEY
H.N. PRYKE
J. SHEPHERD
W. SHEPHERD
A. SHORTEN
P.H.B. SMITH
F.S. WATSON
S.J. MUSK

Just when I didn't think I'd find any more old buildings, I came across Spon Street in Coventry!

The best looking street in Coventry. Could do without the cars (maybe move them to a multi-storey car park away from the historic buildings).

Frank Harvey at 163 Spon Street. Looks like a home cinema and hi-fi store!

Grade II listed building.

163 and 164, Spon Street, Coventry

1.
5105 SPON STREET
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Nos 163 and 164
SP 3279 SE 3/455

II

2.
Formerly Nos 8-10, Much Pank Street, Coventry. Removal to present site completed
October 1974. Late C15 or early C16 timber frame, oversailing at first and second
floor levels. Tiled roof. Probably originally a merchant's house with ground floor
mainly used for shops, second floor partly for storage. Hall parallel at back
destroyed C19. Collar beam roof truss with clasped purlins, tie beams. Casement and
closed windows, wood mullions and reconstructed wood tracery.


Listing NGR: SP3284979048


This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.

Source: English Heritage

Wooden plaque

Just when I didn't think I'd find any more old buildings, I came across Spon Street in Coventry!

The best looking street in Coventry. Could do without the cars (maybe move them to a multi-storey car park away from the historic buildings).

Frank Harvey at 163 Spon Street. Looks like a home cinema and hi-fi store!

Grade II listed building.

163 and 164, Spon Street, Coventry

1.
5105 SPON STREET
-----------
Nos 163 and 164
SP 3279 SE 3/455

II

2.
Formerly Nos 8-10, Much Pank Street, Coventry. Removal to present site completed
October 1974. Late C15 or early C16 timber frame, oversailing at first and second
floor levels. Tiled roof. Probably originally a merchant's house with ground floor
mainly used for shops, second floor partly for storage. Hall parallel at back
destroyed C19. Collar beam roof truss with clasped purlins, tie beams. Casement and
closed windows, wood mullions and reconstructed wood tracery.


Listing NGR: SP3284979048


This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.

Source: English Heritage

Verne Morse