Does this look like an Irish bog to you?

10 Feb 2022 16:49 #1 by Ossington_2008
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I had a truffle through the pages of War In The AIr. This caught my attention in parts 1-10, p. 185. I have recognised Alcock & Browns Vimy since childhood but this is the first time I have seen people alongside it. Now, I have grown up with the idea that an Irish bog is a particularly bad place to be, I have never been to one, but I imagine something akin to the pleasures available should you ever walk the Pennine Way but here it doesn't look too squelchy.
Has anyone here visited the spot? I'm not decrying anyone's pilotage here, just wondering.
Check these pages out: they are a wonderful resource and a link to a byegone world. Many Thanks to all.

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10 Feb 2022 18:09 #2 by netcompsys
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Looks pretty damp in these photos in the memorial topic

www.airfieldresearchgroup.org.uk/forum/r...k-brown-memorial#491

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10 Feb 2022 19:10 #3 by Ossington_2008
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Is that the sea behind? Maybe a loch (lough)? I had no idea it was that close. I imagined them, cold, short of fuel and exhausted glimpsing something emerald below and going for it. In my mind it was something remote from roads and akin to the Cheviots. A long walk in various directions to find habitation and great dificulty in recovering the machine afterwards.

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10 Feb 2022 20:01 - 11 Feb 2022 09:21 #4 by netcompsys
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The memorial apparantly marks the location of the "landing" and is located here

Alcock and Brown landing site
maps.app.goo.gl/4q92aRzMXZWfp35w7

Lots of local puddles
And the site of a Marconi Radio Station.
I wonder if that's what they were flying towards/homing on?
Or even it was there then
Anyway there was a road/track to the station

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10 Feb 2022 21:40 #5 by kebecker
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Believe the Marconi station was in use from 1907-1922
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11 Feb 2022 07:26 #6 by mbriscoe
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Another caption to the same image.

The Bystander - Wednesday 25 June 1919
Image © Illustrated London News Group

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11 Feb 2022 12:33 #7 by PETERTHEEATER
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Presumably it was an Irish peat bog. Not the sort of ankle deep wet bog of English lowlands but firm and 'squidgy with a low water table. In those days, peat was the major domestic fuel. With the Atlantic pioneers delivering their aircraft unexpectedly did the locals use it a kindling?

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11 Feb 2022 14:17 - 11 Feb 2022 14:18 #8 by mbriscoe

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