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Vince Hawthorn
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Posted at 22:40 on 9th January 2014
  Are we all saying the same thing here? In my days of working on MOD bases, quite a few had a plane on a pole or plinth at the entrance and as Dave said, our John does like his planes. One that comes to mind was Stanmore , North London sure that had on eat the entrance.
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Dave John
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Posted at 07:08 on 10th January 2014
Vince has it for sure. My understanding is they are old or disused planes, tanks, jeeps, whatever, situated at the gates of military bases. Scampton near Lincoln used to, maybe still does, have a Harrier.
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rustyruth
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Posted at 11:28 on 10th January 2014
Well done Vince Smile
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Vince Hawthorn
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Posted at 21:15 on 10th January 2014
  Ok folks and thank you but I just joined up the dots so to speak, anyway to keep the little grey cells ticking over and I hope I have not done this one before :-     Where in Sussex is Stepney?
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Vince Hawthorn
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Posted at 23:18 on 10th January 2014

 Sorry John not the answer I am looking for, if we were looking for street names I have seen a Padstow in Crawley as well.

             Keep a looking sir- may have to be a bit further out of the box. 

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Ken Marshall
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Posted at 10:50 on 11th January 2014

There is an old steam locomotive named Stepney and it runs on the Bluebell Railway which has its headquarters at Sheffield Park Station.

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rustyruth
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Posted at 16:11 on 11th January 2014
I'm thinking Ken might have nailed this.
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Andy Dodds
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Posted at 17:33 on 11th January 2014
could also be the surname of a woman photographer in sussex...annemarie stepney
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Dave John
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Posted at 18:09 on 11th January 2014

Gotta agree with Ruth I think Ken has this one

Class: A1X
Wheels: 0-6-0T
Class Introduced: 1872
Designer: William Stroudley
Total number built: 50 (10 still survive)
Built: 1875, Brighton Works, as Class A1
Rebuilt: to class A1X, 1912
Name: "Stepney" built 1875                                                                 Numbers carried: 55, 655, B655, 2655, 32655
Arrived on Bluebell Railway: 17 May 1960 

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Vince Hawthorn
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Posted at 18:11 on 11th January 2014

  Along with Fenchurch if I remember rightly,

Yes Ken you are spot on sir well done

and thank you Dave for all the tech stuff.

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