A week or more ago for  three days, my family and I have been staying at the wonderful Petwood Hotel in the Lincolnshire village of Woodhall Spa.

In film terms this should be a magic place for Wartime locations I would have thought and of course it is home to the unique Kinema In The Woods that I have referred to before.

In Wartime terms this is where the Dam Busters 617 Squadrom was based and the Officers Mess was in the Petwood Hotel – and still is.

You can visit there and see the bar / officers mess very much as it was – and now  a tourist attraction for so many.

Whilst there we met with Charles Clarke OBE who is now 96 years old and had been brought back for some re-union. He was part of 617 Squadron and had flown on Lancasters out of Woodhall Spa.   On one particular mission his plane was shot down and crashed into mountainous terrain but he remarkably survived and was take prisoner. The Camp he went was none other the the famous Great Escape Camp.

On one of the days that  we were there we left the Hotel and went about 5 miles to the current RAF Base at Coningsby which houses the Battle of Britain Flight with their collection of Spitfires, Hurricanes, a Dakota and a flying Lancaster Bomber.

We had a guided tour – and it was pointed out the the above Hurricane had been used in the film Angels One Five in 1952 which was filmed mainly at Kenley in Kent.