A picture of Scopwick
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The cemetery at Scopwick, Lincolnshire, which has a section with graves of airmen of many nationalities, including that of the pilot poet John Magee, who flew Spitfires with the Royal Canadian Air Force and who wrote the internationally known poem High Flight. Image cannot be loaded
A picture of Scopwick
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The grave of PO J.G.Magee, Scopwick cemetery, Lincolnshire. Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr., wrote the internationally known poem High Flight. An American born in China in 1922 he enlisted in the RCAF in 1940 and graduated as a pilot. Within the year, he was sent to England and posted to the newly formed No 412 Fighter Squadron, RCAF. On September 3, 1941, Magee flew a high altitude (30,000 feet) test flight in a newer model of the Spitfire V. As he orbited and climbed upward, he was struck with the inspiration of a poem - Image cannot be loaded
Scopwick Level Crossing, Lincolnshire - 4 June 2010
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Ten years into the 21st Century, the railway from Peterborough to Lincoln remains delightfully unmodernised. In the absence of modern trains or road vehicles, this view at Scopwick - with its traditional gates, signal box and semaphore signals - could almost have been taken in the 1950s. Image cannot be loaded
