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Really enjoy your videos, all the interesting bits of history. Thanks for another one!

The area is called Walford's Gibbet on Ordnance Survey maps.

There’s a few military points of interest around that area. Just down from the hill at the farm is the remains of a search light base and there’s another ‘bunker’ like this one. My understanding was the building you’re at was actually a generator enclosure, built to power the lights. Also I think it’s fair to say this starfish site was a failure as it was never bombed. But perhaps it was built too late. Another interesting thing to acknowledge is that on the fake airfield. There was lumps of concrete to stop any enemy aircraft from being able to land there.

Sally Willams

Much better than what I did.

Another good vid! I didn't know about the fake fires they could simulate. Genius! Thank you got documenting and sharing all these details 😊

A fascinating (if gruesome) tale. I've parked at Dead Woman's Ditch car park and walked through the area a few times, including today. Researching the name led me to these two videos of yours, and it's really interesting to hear just how much detail exists about the situation and the crime itself. Penny's account (in conjunction with some internet research alongside) has just allowed me to locate Lucky Ike's Lane on the OS Map, right by Walford's Gibbet. I didn't know about either location until today, so thank you for helping me to piece all of this together. I will have to make a point of walking up Lucky Ike's Lane and on to Walford's Gibbet to get the full experience - with shivers aplenty as I go, I'm sure. How grim.

Bro is hauling

Where is the commemorative plaque?

Excellent video, thoroughly enjoyed hearing the history of the castle.

Nowadays they add propellers to compound helicopters so that they can go faster and use less fuel. I wonder how fast an H160 or AW139 could go nowadays if equipped with BERP rotors and more power.

I guess that most of those complaining about the kph are too young to remember pounds, shillings and pence. And that if they had to go back to that, the complaints would never end. The UK has also pretty much adopted the metric system of weights and measures. Only long distances are still measured in miles. It's inevitable that the UK will eventually join the rest of the world on that, too, and the sooner, the better.

I have seen the French Navy variant of the Westland Lynx. I think it's a shame that Westlands Lynx and the company Westlands are not still around because they built very good helicopters and license-built American helicopters as well. Tragically.

You can't beat a lynx with berp blades,nice.thats

Sikorsky X2 and X3???

You know what they say: To improve the breed, send it racing. Carry on

We used to be a proper country

Just a quick note that the company is Westland, not Westlands, and that numbers after a decimal point should have their digits read individually, e.g. 'point one zero' instead of 'point ten'

I wish people on here would stop arguing about crap and celebrate the wonderful Westland Aircraft Ltd in my home town of Yeovil.

Thought it was a NEW record!?!?! Nuts.

Living close to RNAS Yeovilton I see the Wildcats of the FAA and AAC flying over relatively often. Wish I got to see operational lynx’s flying before they were replaced

Not sure why all the hate about quoting km/h. Zero people in the U.K have been taught at school using mp/h since 1974 and the vast majority haven’t since the late 60’s.

Great video and very interesting

I lived beside a large Army base in N Ireland and the Lynx was just part of our lives 24/7 and everyday you could watch them hedge hopping in the country side those guys were some pilots but just to show my age as a kid in 1969 I would watch the Whirly Birds on TV imagine my delight when a Bell 47 landed in front of our house.

So.... slower than a Bugatti, then.

Nice to see you leading with metric measurements - I was at school in the 1970s when we were told "the UK is going metric" and assume all since received their numerate education in metric? Including imperial for US viewers is sensible. These videos of "when we used to be so awesome" are a lovely but sad watch - too many trips to read more at Wikipedia only to find "Westland Helicopters was ..."

Greatest BS in this video: Summerset makes the best helicopters in the world. Because of a speed record. That discredits the whole video. Well done, mate. Not.

I don’t think this record has been broken since. Is that Lynx still gate guard at Yeovil?

Love that it was built by techs in Yeovil whilst listening to buggar’r’fm on the wireless and took the record. It’s also noteworthy that it was (I think ?) the only chopper capable of looping. Btw….you are an absolute natural at presenting. I’m surprised I haven’t seen you on mainstream tv but maybe that will come. 👍🏼

You're English, please use MPH not the hated EU kph. Big switch off.

I had the absolute pleasure of flying in these many many times. Out of all the helicopters I ever travelled in the Lynx was the one. Sat in the back on top of our bergans whilst AAC or RM pilots hedge hopped taking us out or bringing us back in, still makes me grin today

Remember this event....everyone should be very oroud if their achievement....back when it was OK to be British and oroud of it.

Why km/h? Were in England.

Wonder if his nickname was Eggsy

Prety cool vid.

Why’s it all in kilometres? We don’t use that neither understand it! Shame, let’s the video down

I'm pretty sure Airwolf was faster? Nice vid, well presented.

Nice video mate. Subscribed

short and sweet cheers for that.

There’s a Junkers 88 up near there that’s still in the ground the last I heard. I shot a BBC documentary on that site some 25 years ago. The farmer was the one who mentioned the Junkers 88 as he has one of the props in his barn.

I just came across this and have a family tree missing some info that links me to this man. Don’t know where I can find any information regarding his family ?

My last name is Crocombe, hope to visit the village some day

Thanks for the video 🙂

Impossible building the dugout bunkers entrance using only skinny logs.

In Baltic states you were forced to serve in German ss or get punished and same happened later on with SSRS thought i don't know about western and central Europe

When will ai overlords come a reality and stop these "shenanigans" humans make for themselves y'know what I mean? 😭 Damn fighting another man's war all the time, RIP veterans that fell from this.

I have never heard of civilians in occupied countries being forced to join the Axis military. Those who did this were volunteers like those in the SS Charlemagne Brigade. Those forced into service had to work in German agriculture and industry, but did not fight. Incidentally, what is usually referred to as the Vichy regime was the legitimate French government, given authority by the freely elected government that was evacuated to Bordeaux in 1940 before Paris fell into German hands.

Political rifts, huh. Imagine being so backwards that you are still hating on someone for refusing to cooperate with the Nazis.

Wherever men yearn to be free ...

On the flip side of the coin, many of the German soldiers towards the end of the war were forced to fight as well and when France was liberated the resistance cowardly murdered the occupying men instead of arresting them as pow’s . A lot of the occupying men were innocent.