Frank Davey's got a massive bonfire going on
Remembrance Sunday with the GSB, Brome and Botesdale, Suffolk - 10th November 2024
Steve Andrews - co-organiser of the memorial to B-17 Pathfinder aircraft that crashed in the side field 81 years ago to the day - invites us over to the Oaksmere for a short service of remembrance as a follow-up to last year's unveiling. This year, two more relatives of one of the East Suffolk County Council workers that were killed on the ground when the plane crashed were there, having seen last year's event on television and getting in touch. There's also the first showing of some artwork which will be used to create a second marble panel for the plinth and which is based on a picture of the pilot, 1st Lieutenant Arthur Reynolds, and some of Clive's own USAAF flying gear. Later on, Nosher and Fred are playing in the Gislingham Silver Band at another remembrance service - this time over at Botesdale, a few miles down the road. The day before all of this, there are some reasonably good fireworks - and a massive bonfire - courtesy of Frank Davey civil engineers, which is holding a display for its staff across the field.
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More impressive fireworks over Frank Davey
Steve Andrews does an introduction
Clive reads from a posthumous pilot's book
A group of relatives and friends
Relatives of the council workers by the memorial
Chatting after the service
Isobel chats with Suzanne and Clive
A local artist introduces his pilot drawing
Steve chats to the artist of the new panel
Steve flicks through a book
Milling around after the service
Isobel and Suzanne in the Oaksmere bar
The memorial is quiet again
Fred spots a cyclops grub in some logs
Lucy - the one-eyed cat - roams around
Botesdale's High Street
Some of the band pile out of the Greyhound pub
We assemble by the war memorial
Fred tries to warm his flute up
The band outside the Chilvers building
Botesdale war memorial in the low sun
A band banner is pegged down
There's quite a good turnout
Adrian chats to an organiser
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Frank Davey's got a massive bonfire going on
Frank Davey's got a massive bonfire going on
More impressive fireworks over Frank Davey
Steve Andrews does an introduction
Clive reads from a posthumous pilot's book
A group of relatives and friends
Relatives of the council workers by the memorial
Chatting after the service
Isobel chats with Suzanne and Clive
A local artist introduces his pilot drawing
Steve chats to the artist of the new panel
Steve flicks through a book
Milling around after the service
Isobel and Suzanne in the Oaksmere bar
The memorial is quiet again
Fred spots a cyclops grub in some logs
Lucy - the one-eyed cat - roams around
Botesdale's High Street
Some of the band pile out of the Greyhound pub
We assemble by the war memorial
Fred tries to warm his flute up
The band outside the Chilvers building
Botesdale war memorial in the low sun
A band banner is pegged down
There's quite a good turnout
Adrian chats to an organiser