A lot of those aircraft aren’t the real thing, there’s a guy in Devon that makes fiberglass replicas of so they’re light enough to stick up on a pole. Still look good though.
Jeff
dazteahan:
As you head east on the A47 near Dereham there is an ostrich/emu in the garden of a bungalow. I remember going to Myhills in Foulsham to look at a truck and there was a camel in the field next door!
The camel was called Alice and she had been rescued from a circus. Stewart Myhill used to tell the story that he had taken Alice on board because local planners had refused him planning permission as it would lower the tone of the area that was surrounded with stud stables for race horses so he put Alice in a field next to them. Who knows with Stewart as he was great character in those days. His adverts for second hand trucks had to be seen.
bestbooties:
There’s a Spitfire outside the front of Northolt airport.
i thought they moved it when they widened the a40 ?
Going thru the Pyrenees one day, around 1996 i saw this at a Motorway services, it impressed me so much i had to stop and take a photo.
im presuming its Tour De France related.
kindle530:
When i used to go to Athens on a regular basis, north of Modena, just before the (A22 where Campogalliano is) on the southbound side, is a big layby/parking area, and there is a massive big red car in there (about 3 times the size of a normal car) it always reminded me of chitty chitty bang bang. I tried putting a link up from Google streetview, i found it ok, but couldnt get the link on here from there. If you went down that way regular, you couldnt miss it!
Is that the one that looks like it’s mounted on the back of steel scorpion.
Jeff
As an enthusiast of the supernatural and UFO-flying saucers 
,I was delighted to have several meals in the famous McDonalds Flying
Saucer Restaurant at Alconbury,over the years …and McDonalds staff wore green uniforms… 
- Little Green Men and all that -geddit?
McDonalds rarely close their restaurants,since they are deservedly successful ,but sadly,this flying saucer restaurant closed down in 2008 
It started life as the Megatron Restaurant,and was later bought by McDonalds and converted in to a McDonalds Restaurant But,aparrently,it was a victim of re-development :-
estatesgazette.com/propertyl … 408113.htm
huntspost.co.uk/news/busines … _1_1409018
But here it is as a very busy and popular McDonalds Restaurant - McDonalds Flying Saucer Restaurant :-
McDONALDS FLYING SAUCER RESTAURANT - wonderful! 
Located at Alconbury,on the A14 Trunk Road,near Huntingdon :-
VALKYRIE
curnock:
bestbooties:
There’s a Spitfire outside the front of Northolt airport.i thought they moved it when they widened the a40 ?
It’s close to the front of the buildings almost obscured by the trees as you pass on the A40.
Well that was a bit of a miss read, probably shouldn’t do it late at night, I thought that they must have flown the Mc D UFO to the A40 FANTASTIC. I’d pay to see that. Even if it is obscured by trees… 
Jeff
ROYAL AIR FORCE CHICKSANDS AN/FLR-9 WULLENWEBER GASOMETER SIGINT AERIAL SYSTEM.
RAF Chicksands,Shefford,near Bedford,on the A600 and A507,was a USAF-SIGINT British GCHQ signals intelligence intercept station,which
was equipped with a huge and magnificent Wullenweber “Gasometer” Aerial System for listening in to,and direction finding,Soviet, Warsaw Pact, and non-USA diplomatic radio communications,QV below.This Wullenweber,which was part of a world wide network of Iron Horse Wullenweber SIGINT stations,was in service from 1962 to 1996.
An absolutely fascinating landmark that could be seen for miles around,was a grand piece of radio engineering:-
AN/FLR-9 Wullenweber CDDAA HF-DF* Iron Horse “Elephant Cage”/“Turkey Farm”/“Gasometer”** Aerial System.Royal Air Force Chicksands.
*AN=Army Navy/FLR-9=Fixed Countermeasures Receive Wullenweber [German designer’s surname] CDDAA=Circularly Disposed Dipole Aerial Array HF-DF=High Frequency Direction Finding Iron Horse Network Gasometer Aerial System.
**“Elephant Cage”/“Turkey Farm”/“Gasometer”,are nicknames
Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/FLR-9
Nearby cities: Milton Keynes, London, Coventry
Coordinates: 52°2’39"N -0°23’21"E
Photographs:-
AN/FLR-9 Wullenweber CDDAA HF-DF* Iron Horse “Elephant Cage”/“Turkey Farm”/“Gasometer”** Aerial System.Royal Air Force Chicksands,
air to ground general view photograph:-
AN/FLR-9 Wullenweber CDDAA HF-DF* Iron Horse “Elephant Cage”/“Turkey Farm”/“Gasometer”** Aerial System.Royal Air Force Chicksands,
land-based panoramic photograph:-
*AN=Army Navy/FLR-9=Fixed Countermeasures Receive Wullenweber [German designer’s surname] CDDAA=Circularly Disposed Dipole Aerial Array HF-DF=High Frequency Direction Finding Iron Horse Network Gasometer Aerial System:-
Jonathan Meades,an investigative reporter,did a film report on the fascinating RAF Chicksands Wullenweber Gasometer Aerial System,and
here is at least some of it on YouTube :-
youtube.com/watch?v=PTmy6dc2HcE
VALKYRIE
Can anybody else remember the Egg vending machine in the hedge on the edge of a field near ■■■■■■ on the A 420?. It was there in the late 60s early 70s and had a sign on it saying 2/6d for a dozen eggs .
RUGBY WIRELESS-RADIO STATION.
From the fascinating AN/FLR-9 Wullenweber CDDAA HF-DF* Iron Horse “Elephant Cage”/“Turkey Farm”/“Gasometer”** Aerial System,at Royal Air Force Chicksands,we now go to a really historic radio station that went back to the early days of radio,that kept the United Kingdom’s radio frequency and time calibration and was used for Royal Navy submarine radio communications:-
(Correction 
for my previous post:Wullenweber was the designer’s name for the aerial - NOT his surname )
Rugby Wireless-Radio Station,Hillmorton,Rugby,A428,A5 Watling Street,Junction 18 M1,and also near the Crick Lorry Park
The Commercial Vehicle & Road Transport Club Classic Commercial Vehicle Show used to be held at the Crick lorry park,before the show was moved to the British Motor Heritage Trust Museum,Gaydon,Warwickshire,and anyone who visited this show at Crick would not fail to notice the huge aerial systems of the nearby Rugby Radio-Wireless Station.You could see these aerials for miles around,and they were a great landmark at night time,since the aerial masts were lit up with red pilot warning lights - they looked great from the M1 Motorway!
A regular exhibit at the Classic Commercial Vehicle Show at the Crick lorry park was this magnificent prewar ERF rigid eight-wheeler lorry:-
ERF CI682,Flat-bodied,8x4 Lorry,Chassis No.380,BYB 375,1936 Somerset-registered.New to Cox and Sons.Then fairground lorry with the Scotts family.Preserved by Nick P.N.Watts,Deeping St.Nicholas:-
Rugby Wireless Station opened in 1926,was used over the years for a number of radio transmissions:TATS=Trans-Atlantic Telephone Service;transmitting telegraphic radio messages as part of the Imperial Wireless Service,but most famously in the postwar years as GBR communicating with Royal Navy submarines and as MSF as the referance standard frequency and time signal station for the United Kingdom.
Rugby Radio Station closed down in 2007 …downright ridiculous! 
-they ought to have kept Rugby open!
Rugby GBR Radio Station’s submarine radio traffic were taken over by Skelton Transmitting Station GQD in 2001-2003,and Anthorn GBZ in 2003.
Rugby MSF Radio Station’s referance standard frequency and time signal transmission was transferred to Anthorn GBZ in 2007.
RUGBY WIRELESS-RADIO STATION’S SPLENDID RADIO AERIALS AND MASTS,Hillmorton,Rugby,A428,A5,Junction 18 M1,and also near the Crick Lorry Park.Note the magnificent Log Periodic Horizontal Shortwave Aerial in the background :-
RUGBY WIRELESS-RADIO STATION,1926-2007,one of the big 820 feet high aerial masts and a transmitter-receiver house,photographed circa 1920s-1930s.Stations at Anthorn and Skelton have now replaced Rugby:-
Rugby MSF Referance Standard Frequency and Time Signal logo.The MSF time signals system is controlled by atomic clocks,devised and run by the National Physical Laboratory,Teddington,and is used by the BBC,ITV,the government and so on to keep accurate time for the United Kingdom:-
SCAMMELL 4x2-6 SEVEN AND HALF TON,FRAME-BODIED,ARTICULATED SIX WHEELER LORRY,AN 5009*,1922.Thomas Feast,Cartage Contractor,Silvertown,London.Hauling Henley-made VLF Aerial Tuning Coil for Rugby Wireless Station:-
*AN 5009?
RUGBY WIRELESS-RADIO STATION LIT UP AT NIGHT FROM THE M1 MOTORWAY…Er…actually this is Scarborough Harbour,but it does give a very good representation of what Rugby Radio Station looked like at night from the M1 Motorway! :-
VALKYRIE
Seem to remember that the Rugby Radio station used to make the Atki rev counter jump about a bit when it was in use when driving by on the A5.
On the side of the A4103 at Fromes Hill transport cafe on the Hereford to Worcester road.
MrJake:
Seem to remember that the Rugby Radio station used to make the Atki rev counter jump about a bit when it was in use when driving by on the A5.
There was a similar, though much smaller, one at Winstone, on the A417 between Gloucester and Cirencester. I believe it was dismantled in the 1950s.
Retired Old ■■■■:
MrJake:
Seem to remember that the Rugby Radio station used to make the Atki rev counter jump about a bit when it was in use when driving by on the A5.
The radio station at Orfordness used to make the magnetic compass on my boat go haywire if passing within about half a mile of the shore.
going down the A350 once towards poole , there was a fellah stood in a farm gateway playing the bagpipes !! perhaps his missus didnt like him playing them in the house
CJA1:
M56 West bound Passing Frodsham, the Indian Chief"s Head Looses its shape as you pass? was shown this by an old Guy in our Fishing club as a lad, ny on sixty yrs ago, and it has not changed a bit Cheers Chris.
I know this as the “Old Man of Helsby”.
aye …not uk but here in Manitoba a lot o villages have shall we say strange mascots…Gladstone has a happy rock,Somerset a biggggg Canadian flag on a pole of course,
Glenora a camel, flin flon a lepricon (i think)rotten spelling ,others ive seen …sunflowers,goose,Pelican,bunch o flowers,blue heron,Roland a large pumpkin, and a potato… lots more
jimmy.