Introduction

General Chat Your Introductions!
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Hello my user name is harvatt , I am looking forward to meeting members ,

I am a retired Ministry of Transport Certificated Ships Compass adjuster and Compass Maker and industrial instrument Engineer .

I used to play Football in the Winter and Cricket in the Summer so obviously interested in Sport ,

I served two years National Service in the RAF working on Lancaster Bombers .:-):slight_smile: and five years in the Air Training Corps ,

I have had a Laptop for about 6/7 years and still struggle on a Forum , it is a bit like doing the Telegraph Crossword to me, So I hope you may forgive me when I lose my way . Thank you so much and warm regards to all :-):-):slight_smile:

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Hello Harvatt :slight_smile: welcome, I look forward to chatting with you.

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Welcome Terry, it sounds as though you’ve had an interesting life.

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Hello Harvatt and a very warm welcome to you.:slight_smile:

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Hello Harvatt :slight_smile: a very warm welcome to Over50sForum…

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Hi Terry and welcome from me too :slight_smile:

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Hi harvatt and welcome to the forum.

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Hi I’m sure some of the ladies here will point you in the right direction. :lol:

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:lol::lol: @ VM

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Welcome to the forum , you have had an interesting Career , my OH is just finishing off making a model Lancaster.

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Thank you all so much for your welcome messages , for what I have read so far I am really looking forward to exchanging a few posts , please bear in mind a bit I added onto my introduction where I have said that I find Forums something of a struggle to find my way round . However I will try hard .
Kind regards , Terry (harvatt)

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Hello harvatt and welcome to the forum. I live just up the road where Lancasters were built. :slight_smile:

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Eliza , without any doubt , it is my favourite aircraft , unfortunately I only managed a short flight in one - from Scampton RAF station to Lindholme RAF station . We were really overloaded with kit and nearly over ran the runway . Regards . Incidentally what part of the country where your Lancasters built .

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Thank you Cheshire Cat - such lovely welcomes , I cannot really get over it . I will bet you saw a few antics then when they were going up on test flights . I was based on training stations where they converted crew from twin engine aircraft to four engine and I saw plenty , the best laugh really was one Wednesday afternoon ,which was sports afternoon , but one Lancaster somehow headed right onto the football pitch , you can picture the panic . Thank goodness no one was hurt . Take care .

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Hello Terry! What an interesting life you’ve led. Great to see you here :smiley:

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Hi Terry :slight_smile: if you have any problems finding your way about the site and need any help feel free to start a thread here to get help…

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I’m not as old as that Terry!!! It was during the war when they were built here at Woodford, Cheshire!
That was pretty scary, thank goodness, as you say, no one was hurt. :smiley:

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Welcome Harvatt :slight_smile:

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Lancasters

A bit tied up for time today if I may call you joy , but time to work a quick one in , Joy I would not dream of thinking you are that old !!! , I have now seen your photo - you are far to good to even to remotely think of that ! !
Look after yourself, Terry .