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CARDINGTON SHEDS

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A 40 somthing cardington sheds fan. Slightly airship obsessive with a humorous undertone and a natural dislike of destructive, dangerously placed housing estates round the airship sheds at Cardington.

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 4d

It wasnt a Zeppelin.

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Bedford Independent @bedfordindependent.co.uk · 4d

A new play, exploring the truth behind the R 101 tragedy, opens at The Place Theatre on 14 October...

#Bedford #BedfordNews #R101 #Cardington

'Seizing the Skies' - a new play to commemorate the 95th anniversary of the R 101 airship - Bedford Independent

At dusk on 4 October 1930, His Majesty's Airship R 101 slipped from its mooring at Cardington with 54 men on board, flew a circuit of...

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 6d

95 years ago, the British airship HMA R101 crashed in the early hours of the 05/10/30.

Today, we remember those souls lost.

#R10195

There will be a church service at St Marys church this afternoon at 3 pm in memory of all those lost in this terrible accident 95 years ago.

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Bedfordshire @bedfordshireuk.bsky.social · 9d

The R101 airship disaster

#Bedfordshire #BedsBucksHerts

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The R101 airship disaster - BBC Sounds

Sunday October 5th marks the 95th anniversary of one of the worst ever airship disasters.

www.bbc.co.uk

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 8d

Graf Zeppelin, not R101

CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · Sep 7

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The St Mary's Airship Museum 95th anniversary talks.

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The BDC @bedforddramaco.bsky.social · Jul 2

Airship R101 fact 1.

For more info visit St. Mary's Church Airship Museum, Cardington, @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social, The Higgins Museum, and Shuttleworth Collection for incredible R101 artefacts.

Tickets: www.theplacebedford.org.uk/shows/seizin...

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · Jun 16

Recent acquisition for the St Mary's Church Airship Museum. A massive ratchet spanner and massive nuts too.... matron

All from Cardington

But what was it for?

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · May 5

This new publication includes exciting contemporary photographs of aviation pioneers from the Aerofilms collection. The book includes 80 illustrations, a small selection of which can be seen here courtesy of the Historic England Archive:

The R101 airship on its first test flight over Berkeley Square, Westminster, from the south, 1929. Buildings pictured below the airship, and clouds above.

The S.S. Stratheden ship in the Thames Estuary with Cliffe Fort, Kent and countryside in the background. Photographed in June 1947.

Several planes formation flying at the National Aviation Day in Hamsey Green, Surrey photographed from the north-west in April 1933. Rolling countryside behind and fields with roads below.

Railway Bridge and Transporter Bridge across the River Mersey, Manchester Ship Canal, Runcorn and Widnes, photographed in March 1921. Industrial city in the background.

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · May 8

@moffetthangar1.bsky.social so what are you not telling us Mr Moffetthangar1???? LTA maiden flight over you and your silent..... where's the pics? Video? Live stream? We all need a positive bot of LTA news!!!

CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · May 4

You have hurt R36s feelings with that 😉

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · May 4

It ain't pretty. Rust is a nasty pest.

CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · May 4

Well you seemed to forget the storm and low level turbulance and all the actual factors that brought her down.

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · May 4

R36 was the first, R100 flew after R101s maiden flight too. So in reality, R100 was the 3rd British passenger airship to fly.

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · May 4

One of the survivors was in that room during the accident, he broke through those walls with his bare hands, then tearing through other obstacles, he battled wis way out of the burning ship. It was in the lower floor of the ship, quite a distance from the Hydrogen.

CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · May 4

You should see how many folk died in aeroplane accidents in that era, too. Early aviation was iffy whatever you went up in. Giant airships, of course, were a hell of a lot more noticeable and carried far more people at that time.