Lincoln Bomber

We headed out to Lincoln for a short weekend away and the International Bomber Command Centre was a place on my list that I have wanted to see for some time, though I don’t think I actually knew what it was all about.

It’s sort of well placed as there are a few RAF bases in the area with Waddington, Digsby and Conningsby, but let’s not forget the RAF College at Cranwell as well as the recently closed RAF Scampton, the old home of the Red Arrows. It is also quite close to the old Avro factory at Bracebridge Heath, which I don’t think exists anymore. So, it’s probably not a surprise that something airfcrafty would be in the area.

The Command Centre as far as I am aware was nothing specific before it became the IBCC, but it now is a permanent memorial for remembrance for the crews involved in the conflict of WWII for Bomber Command. It’s a quite small exhibition, but quite interesting, with film shows and what they call an interactive show, but is sort of a cut down version of what you get at the IWM North, where all the lights go down and the a film gets projected onto the walls, which is still good. It’s interesting and one things that I completely misunderstood was how much the allies bombed the Axis Powers versus how little the Allies got bombed, it’s not even close.

Rather than choose to take a picture of the spire, I decided to take this one for a bomber crew with a silhouette of the Cathedral behind which came out surprisingly well despite the weather. On the way there and back the Woodhead Pass was thick with fog that you would barely see 50 yards.