# ![@NewForestRamble Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::2645358686.png) @NewForestRamble Marc H

Marc H posts on X about $7846t, in the, the new, forest the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

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**Social topic influence**
[$7846t](/topic/$7846t) #760, [in the](/topic/in-the), [the new](/topic/the-new), [forest](/topic/forest), [if you](/topic/if-you), [battle of](/topic/battle-of), [germany](/topic/germany), [kia](/topic/kia), [britain](/topic/britain) #647, [battle](/topic/battle) #1538

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"New Forest & Hampshire history. Americans load bombs onto USAAF B-26 Marauders at the Holmsley South airfield August [----]. IWM FRE 9623"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1527573583681159168)  2022-05-20T08:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Rounding up New Forest ponies at the RAF Stoney Cross Aerodrome / Airfield in [----] showing Nissen Huts and runway section. British Path"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1554400775798915073)  2022-08-02T09:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Quick stretch of the legs at Beaulieu Airfield / Roundhill a moment ago. Crazy to think there were once more than [---] temporary buildings here and at some points [----] people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1607747544183873538)  2022-12-27T14:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Robert Steinhaus was just [--] when he died on Beaulieu Heath New Forest [----] miles from home. Taking off from Beaulieu Airfield a flare gun dropped onto the floor fired and cut a hydraulic line in the cockpit causing a catastrophic explosion. https://rafbeaulieu.co.uk/robert-steinhaus-incident-beaulieu/ https://rafbeaulieu.co.uk/robert-steinhaus-incident-beaulieu/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1616911782597038080)  2023-01-21T21:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"One of my favourite places in the New Forest is Bagshot Moor East Boldre; over the road from Hatchet Pond. If you walk here yourself you may stumble across what looks like a large capital T dug into the ground and wondered. WTF is that. Let me explain. 🧵1/4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1632408739033632768)  2023-03-05T15:52Z [----] followers, 31.4K engagements


"Tomorrow Dan Snow @thehistoryguy Andy Chatterton @Chats1 and myself are off secret bunker hunting in some of the deepest and darkest parts of the New Forest. Will we find anything We will wait and see. 🧐"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1678490127469801480)  2023-07-11T10:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@stockotrader @thehistoryguy @Chats1 Id say its a collaborative plan with different skills and knowledge coming to the table"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1678526325022158851)  2023-07-10T22:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"80 years ago today was what I believe to be the deadliest wartime air crash in the New Forest. It involved two aircraft one from Holmsley South one Beaulieu. Here's a short tribute I made to the [--] men who died and the story of what happened"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1690727993553960960)  2023-08-13T14:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Anyway today was out last day on the rental contract. I took the keys over to the letting agent after closing the door for the last time. As I was about to leave the lady in the office said: "Did you see any ghosts" I said "no". "Why" 10/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1696971292522516865)  2023-08-30T19:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"To which she responded: "Oh the people who used to own it a few years ago had to move out because the bed was lifting off the floor" I explained we didn't get that Thank f**k. 11/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1696971294640619771)  2023-08-30T19:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Juxtaposition. B&W photo: Children play by a "Tall-Boy" bomb crater with the wreck of the German Battleship Tirpitz in the background. Colour photo: My son plays by a "Tall-Boy" bomb crater in the New Forest where the bomb was tested before being used"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1697544317923914010)  2023-09-01T09:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"New Forest Airfields Memorial: A time capsule was placed in the memorial and it's planned to be removed and opened [--] years from the date of the memorial was first unveiled so I assume August 2052"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1699336367442891124)  2023-09-06T08:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Welcome to The New Forest. Where a naive tourist will get threatened with a thousand pound fine for petting a pony. But @SouthernWater can pump shit for two days into the Beaulieu River with Im guessing zero consequence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1699910321668833484)  2023-09-07T22:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I saw this grave yesterday at Beaulieu Cemetary. George Meager was killed when bombs fell on his searchlight position outside Beaulieu village. November [--] [----] was a terrible [--] hours for Southampton and the New Forest with many killed in raids"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1700144633496416440)  2023-09-08T13:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"RAF Beaulieu this evening in memorial to [--] Czechoslovak men who died operating from the airfield in WW2. The men had escaped German occupied Europe to come to Britain then flew from the New Forest to continue the fight. Many died in a short [--] mile radius of the runway"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1702025971375788399)  2023-09-13T18:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Short piece of film about the thirty one Czechoslovak men who died flying out of Beaulieu Airfield. Includes segment at the New Forest Airfields memorial. Created last week"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1703775128029397172)  2023-09-18T14:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Perhaps of interest to people living in the New Forest or Waterside areas of Hampshire. Short story I wrote for a local paper this week about the night of November [--] [----] when bombs fell on Beaulieu Exbury Holbury killing several people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1709893237748437259)  2023-10-05T11:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I spent another enjoyable day again in the New Forest with Dan Snow @thehistoryguy and Andy @Chats1 for @HistoryHit. We saw lifted floorboards dug holes found concrete. all in the quest to find evidence of top secret Auxiliary Unit bunkers and tunnels"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1711394331058200985)  2023-10-09T14:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"If you didn't hear it first time around this was the original podcast we were on which resulted in leads coming in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1711400997937983760)  2023-10-09T15:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I'm presenting to the New Forest History & Archaeology Group this evening 1930pm at Lyndhurst Community Centre. Title is. Hidden in Plain Sight: Reminders of WW2 in the New Forest I'm told it's [--] to attend and they welcome non-members if anyone fancies coming to say hello"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1712467443493605770)  2023-10-12T13:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The story of Spitfire Bridge. [--] October [----]. On this day [--] years ago Canadian pilot George Rogers decided to fly under a bridge that straddled the A33 Winchester Bypass in an act of bravado (or stupidity) in his Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk. It didn't end well. 🧵1/4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1714932049432170794)  2023-10-19T09:10Z [----] followers, 236K engagements


"In the 1920s the wrecks of two German WW1 warships were left in the mud of Portsmouth Harbour and eventually forgotten about before passing into obscurity. Many would pass the remains daily with little or no idea as to their true identity. Until 2016"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1717081287381455187)  2023-10-25T07:30Z [----] followers, 26.8K engagements


"It's an amazing story. which I'm pleased to say Stephen Fisher (aka @SeaSpitfires) will be telling at East Boldre Village Hall in the New Forest on Friday November [--]. Tickets can be purchased on this link:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1717081291768676379)  2023-10-25T07:30Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"I created a montage of "then vs now" photography showing the New Forest Airfields of WW2. Here's a clip with three of them. The full version showing all [--] airfields is online: search YouTube for "new forest airfields then vs now". Hope some find it interesting. 🤓"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1720494597871149215)  2023-11-03T17:34Z [----] followers, 62.4K engagements


"Todays ramble. One of my fave spots"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1721171841014813067)  2023-11-05T14:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Ashley Walk. Short image thread"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1730293782543794638)  2023-11-30T18:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Im [--] years old and not ashamed to say Im extremely excited by what the next couple of hours hold"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1739590033164603680)  2023-12-26T10:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Thorns Beach lies a couple of hundred metres south of where the main N to S runway of RAF Needs Oar Point ended in the New Forest. 🧵1/4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1739693915488313459)  2023-12-26T17:05Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"Flooded ring ditch around a Bronze Age barrow this morning. Water moving surprisingly quick with the wind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1740291683982397502)  2023-12-28T08:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"He's been asking if he can get a corn snake for weeks. We repeatedly say no no snakes in our house. We've just been invited into the lounge for a surprise presentation on why he should be allowed to get a corn snake. Every single pushback now has a counter argument"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743613592643998124)  2024-01-06T12:40Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"With Harry the wise old forester this morning searching for the secret underground bunker of the Auxiliary Units. No luck again. We will find it though. one day 😀"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1746500951085645987)  2024-01-14T11:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@ckolonko Thanks I didn't know that cheers Chris. Is this a layer on the website you linked me to (it's not working at moment)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1746826334985200010)  2024-01-15T09:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"These two rings both have a story regarding airmen of the WW2 airfields in the New Forest I just wish I knew what the stories were. 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1751650625941549189)  2024-01-28T16:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The metal one is US Army Air Force and was found on the runways at Beaulieu Airfield in [----] so possibly dropped in a hurry. Could have belonged to someone with the 365th Hell Hawks flying P-47s Thunderbolts or the 323rd Bomb Group flying B-26 Marauders"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1751650628609155092)  2024-01-28T16:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"On this day [--] years ago Norman Peter Blacklock of [---] Sqdn flew from RAF Beaulieu on a recce towards the Channel Islands. He failed to return. I found him in this photo. After doing that I recognised a few others to mention. 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1754536111576129566)  2024-02-05T16:03Z [----] followers, 14.2K engagements


"This is Bob Tuff Australian. On Feb [--] [----] he baled out of his Typhoon into freezing cold water near Guernsey to help his colleague Geoffrey Warnes who has ditched in the sea. Neither man was seen alive again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1754536114151424184)  2024-02-05T16:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Chats1 @WeHaveWaysPod It sounds great. Might see if I can go. Hate to be that guy though. the image advertising an exhibition about concrete pillboxes is an asbestos handcraft hut further mislabelled as a Nissen hut"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1755206038456844446)  2024-02-07T12:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Chats1 @WeHaveWaysPod And even that appears to read as Nissan not Nissen 😆"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1755206378786832531)  2024-02-07T12:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@REMuseum This sounds fantastic. Couple of things though from a pedant. Those aren't concrete pillboxes in that painting. They appear to be a depiction of asbestos handcraft huts. The artist then further incorrectly labels them as Nissen huts although he's misspelt it Nissan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1755207541850579400)  2024-02-07T12:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"People who I know are good with maps are always in demand for questions like this if they have time or inclination pls. @rentaquill @SeaSpitfires @ckolonko 😀"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1759224120095420691)  2024-02-18T14:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Since doing the Auxiliary Units podcast last year with @thehistoryguy and @Chats1 leads for potential underground bunkers come in every few weeks - some I go and check. Including this shed in the New Forest that was said to hold a hidden secret. 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1761068130862768245)  2024-02-23T16:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Devils Fingers (Octopus Stinkhorn) is a fungus found in the New Forest but it shouldn't be here. It's is an alien species (and alien looking too) from the Southern Hemisphere. Oh. and it smells like rotten flesh (apparently). I can vouch: it really does stink"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1763210825190302136)  2024-02-29T14:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"So how Devil's Fingers get [-----] miles or so from places like Australia and New Zealand to here in the New Forest There's a popular theory"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1763210828369498402)  2024-02-29T14:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Ty_Adam_Scott @dan_of_steele March [--] is another anniversary of a South African hero. Will post it next week 😀"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1767655391125553181)  2024-03-12T20:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"A handful of tickets are on sale so if you want to come along tickets for the talk at the St. Andrew's Centre in Dibden Purlieu are on this link:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1770036379503792489)  2024-03-19T10:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Am I being a diva Some bloke I know wrote a book which I recently saw in a local shop. I opened it up and was surprised to see he'd thanked me in the acknowledgements for the knowledge he had lifted from a social media group I run to help write his book. 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1770040557512826915)  2024-03-19T10:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"He never told me or thanked me in person. He's now posting on social media that he's dropped free copies off to schools libraries etc. I feel a bit put out that he's thanked me in the book but not given me a copy. I refuse to buy it on this basis. Am I being a diva 👺"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1770040559199047896)  2024-03-19T10:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Ty_Adam_Scott @dan_of_steele Great point. I posted it from my other social media account. here she is. Today is the anniversary of the death of Rosamund Everard Steenkamp an ATA pilot during WW2. After the war she continued flying but was killed on [--] March [----]. She had picked a Spitfire up from Hamble Airfield Hampshire for a delivery flight and crashed near Maidenhead. https://t.co/BG7mfTzIbr Today is the anniversary of the death of Rosamund Everard Steenkamp an ATA pilot during WW2. After the war she continued flying but was killed on [--] March [----]. She had picked a Spitfire up from"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1770040861801214126)  2024-03-19T10:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Ty_Adam_Scott @sallyacb275 @clark_aviation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1770057464358015192)  2024-03-19T11:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@alukeonlife To be fair I didn't get past the acknowledgements page 😆 - the group contains thousands of people who share their knowledge what they know see learn etc. So I assume more a "curation""  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1770059060743664027)  2024-03-19T12:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@alukeonlife . and don't get me wrong. The whole book isn't based on my social media group. Far from it. But it appears he got local knowledge tips and information for some aspects from it. So not a copyright thing at all. Just a courtesy thing perhaps"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1770059896446214338)  2024-03-19T12:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"80 years ago today March [--] [----] [--] civilians and [--] airmen lost their lives when a Halifax heavy bomber crashed on Wimborne Road Moordown Bournemouth. It had taken off from RAF Hurn bound for the Mediterranean Allied Air Force base in Morocco"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1770726099078594770)  2024-03-21T08:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Here's a rather tenuous link to eggs given it's Easter Sunday. It involves RAF Typhoons that flew from the New Forest on D-Day and Winston Churchill. One for those interested in WW2 aviation history. and eggs. 🥚🥚🥚 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1774485158751580319)  2024-03-31T17:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"My mate's mum just sent him this. Crying. 😂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1774719069331054843)  2024-04-01T08:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I once wrote about the various legends of Hatchet Pond. Contains stories of Spitfires and other assorted aircraft lost in the depths https://nfhwa.org/hatchet-pond-plane-crashes-drownings-military-history/ https://nfhwa.org/hatchet-pond-plane-crashes-drownings-military-history/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1774720373809983843)  2024-04-01T08:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Walking in the depths of the New Forest earlier and stumbled across some American pierced steel planking (PSP) aka Marston Matting. Which is a little odd. 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1774802431731269777)  2024-04-01T14:14Z [----] followers, 318.6K engagements


"I found more a few minutes later about a hundred meters away. Perhaps it was used by Forestry workers in the immediate post-war period. Hard to say. Something to look into"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1774802440962928810)  2024-04-01T14:14Z [----] followers, 18.9K engagements


"@Ty_Adam_Scott @LymoTweetUp I don't believe so. I actually looked recently when having a dinner there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1774857616872620351)  2024-04-01T17:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"This is a follow up to recent thread I did on reminders of WW2 I've found in the New Forest which people seemed to like. A few years ago I was walking on heathland near Beaulieu Road train station and saw this. Bit odd. 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1776585123023986689)  2024-04-06T12:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I was measured it and archaeologist @SeaSpitfires confirmed it was wartime beach hardening mat ("chocolate blocks"). Cheers Stephen. I.e: the same material used on embarkation beaches such as Lepe & Stokes Bay (pictured) to help load vehicles onto landing craft"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1776585126270361662)  2024-04-06T12:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I thought it strange to find it fly-tipped on the New Forest heathland. I then reached the the road side and saw it had been used to strengthen a verge / vehicle entrance. I assume the surplus mat I saw dumped on the heath was from where it was applied to the road here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1776585129579720945)  2024-04-06T12:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Why was the verge strengthened I found a photo that looks to have been taken in the 1960s and you can just about spot it on the road side at the same spot (red arrows). So evidently 1960s or pre"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1776585132612223266)  2024-04-06T12:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I think earlier. and likely WW2 as land off this road was used as a military depot as seen on aerial photos. I believe aspects of landing craft were delivered by rail off-loaded to trucks here and taken to places such as the Beaulieu River in the lead-up to D-Day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1776585135686615504)  2024-04-06T12:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Do enjoy this photo from RAF Calshot to start the week. I have no idea what is going on here. 😆"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1777279653285126283)  2024-04-08T10:17Z [----] followers, 11.3K engagements


"@clark_aviation I believe Singapores were at Calshot until [----] so that stacks up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1777305160793940223)  2024-04-08T11:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"On this day in [----] one of my dogs just decided to hitch a lift on a complete stranger's mobility scooter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1778319475554631966)  2024-04-11T07:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Ty_Adam_Scott He ran off into the woods. I got there and saw this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1778319929277558919)  2024-04-11T07:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Currently stood at Boltons Bench thinking what a great place that would be in the distance to play cricket. I dont play cricket. But if I did Id hope it to be there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1778467763855425926)  2024-04-11T16:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Beaulieu High Street August [----]. Three weeks before war is declared. Troops likely on their way to the Territorial Army camp in East Boldre for training. What a coincidence that Google caught the two guys with coffee almost in the same steps as the men leading the march"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1779579179975020786)  2024-04-14T18:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"80 years ago today an incident occurred that became known as the Exbury Junkers Mystery. A Luftwaffe Ju [---] appeared over the Isle of Wight shortly before [---] am. It was shot down by two Typhoons from Needs Oar Point with support from an AA gun at Haxland Exbury. 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1780869790816444521)  2024-04-18T08:03Z [----] followers, 53K engagements


"Floating dock on the Beaulieu River [----]. It was built as part of the Mulberry Harbour project at Clobb Copse on the west side of the water. I believe it was "floating dock 33". Does anyone know what became of it please I heard it could've ended up in Ceylon then Norway.🤷♂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1787181116610285959)  2024-05-05T18:02Z [----] followers, 17.5K engagements


"@SeaSpitfires @davidjmcarson1 Cheers Stephen. How far did you get please Mary and I are putting a joint talk together about the river and this came up in her notes. Is the Ceylon and Norway connection valid do you know"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1787199544272265629)  2024-05-05T19:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@stockotrader @kejamieson_ This is his third business so far. I might have to turn him into HMRC at this rate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1788686157271765063)  2024-05-09T21:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@szetoinsitu No not from this view. However from where the photo is taken the house behind the camera was a firing position looking up the high street with two gunmen assigned to the first floor windows"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1790863257730707544)  2024-05-15T21:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@sonsrap10 @DockyardSociety Thanks Trevor. Giving talks is what makes me happy at the moment. I hope you are good"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1792645669393453296)  2024-05-20T19:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"In the 1880s this was originally just one basin scraped out from the mud. The oysters were a delicacy and they were sent by train to London. But the cost of producing them far outweighed the price they could fetch and the business closed. Not a profitable enterprise. /"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1796534203028566111)  2024-05-31T13:28Z [----] followers, 31K engagements


"However those oyster beds would be transformed for a new use in WW2. Why There was a shortage of steel to make floating docks to repair ships and landing craft and the idea of a concrete floating dock was erm. "floated". /"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1796534206627283045)  2024-05-31T13:28Z [----] followers, 30.3K engagements


"The Wates construction company won a contract to start experimenting in the oyster beds building what was to be called an Admiralty Floating Dock (AFD). And more mud was dug out and construction began in [----]. /"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1796534209454207256)  2024-05-31T13:28Z [----] followers, 29.5K engagements


"Designed to have a lifting capacity of [----] tons [---] feet long [--] feet wide. it took a lot of concrete. But it worked and she was launched into the Beaulieu River a couple of months before D-Day. Possibly the largest object to ever float on the river. /"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1796534212922855755)  2024-05-31T13:28Z [----] followers, 27.7K engagements


"But it wasnt just a floating dock made here. The basin was extended in [----] for the construction of concrete pontoons known as Beetles for the Mulberry Harbour. [--] were built here and I believe they all went to Normandy. /"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1796534216743944601)  2024-05-31T13:28Z [----] followers, 25.2K engagements


"I was given permission to visit the site and here are a [--] photos from a collection taken on the day. This is private property I was allowed onto their land. I hope you enjoyed the short thread. I will try do some more over the next few days as we lead up to D-Day 80"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1796534220300636649)  2024-05-31T13:28Z [----] followers, 23.9K engagements


"Here's a D-Day [--] tale relating to the New Forest involving a lucky man (or perhaps he's not so lucky you decide) plus P-47 Thunderbolts the Royal Navy and US landing craft. On this day [--] June [----] 1st Lt. Allen Guest took off from Beaulieu in his USAAF P-47 Thunderbolt. /"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1797204669959201079)  2024-06-02T09:52Z [----] followers, 17.7K engagements


"The aircraft suffered an engine fire during the mission but Allen managed to make it back to Beaulieu Airfield. Upon landing he was trapped in the cockpit as the crash crew put the fire out (pictured here at Beaulieu). He survived. Incredibly his story doesn't end there. /"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1797204672538685673)  2024-06-02T09:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"On [--] July he was involved in a mid-air collision with another P-47. He was able to free himself from the aircraft and open his parachute landing off the coast of Normandy where he was rescued by Royal Navy sailors. /"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1797204675021750706)  2024-06-02T09:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"80 years ago today men were locked down in the D-Day marshalling and embarkation areas in the New Forest before they left on June [--]. It's still possible to see signs of life. Perhaps these were the the last cups of tea drunk before they embarked for the landing craft"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1797215510389469340)  2024-06-02T10:35Z [----] followers, 12.9K engagements


"This dilapidated workshop on the Exbury Estate in the New Forest in Hampshire has a rather interesting D-Day connection - but you will only know if you go inside. Which is what I did. 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1797884590604083695)  2024-06-04T06:54Z [----] followers, 115.7K engagements


"The hut was once part of HMS Mastodon (some personnel pictured). It was a stone frigate involved in the training of landing craft crews and the provision of food supplies to vessels in the Solent in the lead up to D-Day. It was under control of the Victualling Department"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1797884595041391016)  2024-06-04T06:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"This reinforced steel door is built into Portsdown Hill overlooking Portsmouth Harbour. Behind it is a labyrinth of tunnels with an important D-Day connection. Read on to see what I found when I went inside. I had to wear a head torch. 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1798674751994397077)  2024-06-06T11:14Z [----] followers, 769.7K engagements


"That I just found online. James the smoking chimp at Southampton Zoo. People would throw lighted cigarettes into his cage and he would pick them up and smoke them to the delight of the watching crowd. Blimey"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1801261082637377880)  2024-06-13T14:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"A couple of years ago I wanted to get some decent birds-eye view photos of a couple of landmarks in the New Forest but didn't get permission to use a drone. So improvised. I put a GoPro on the end of a telescopic tree pruning tool. Then sent son off to test it. 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1801512007490806181)  2024-06-14T07:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Today's the anniversary of the death of Reg Baker killed in action on June [--] [----]. Reg was the wing commander of the squadrons flying from Needs Oar Point in the New Forest. On this day [--] years ago he was hit by flak his last words over the radio to warn his men away. 1/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1802276452106133660)  2024-06-16T09:46Z [----] followers, 20.6K engagements


"Whisper it quietly but is this summer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1803769356599337230)  2024-06-20T12:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"On this day in [----] Chilton Forrest departed Lyminton Airfield in his P-47 Thunderbolt on a dive-bombing mission to Saint Quentin France. He was last seen over the English Channel and is believed to have been lost due to anti-aircraft gunfire. His body was never found"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1804054721503645987)  2024-06-21T07:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"As its a rainy day Ive decided to do this. Can you tell what it is yet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1809886714027995563)  2024-07-07T09:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"On this day [----] Charles Rolls had the misfortune of becoming the first Briton to be killed in a powered aircraft accident when he crashed during a flying display at Southbourne Bournemouth. He was [--] and the co-founder of the Rolls-Royce car firm along with Henry Royce"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1811662997397397619)  2024-07-12T07:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@ckolonko if anyone can critique me it's certainly you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1815708835614458236)  2024-07-23T11:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Thorley_forDad @militaryhistori @WeHaveWaysPod @CWGC I believe this is Cyril William Burgess aged [--] from Hounslow. He died in a canoeing accident in Germany on that day. His funeral was at the Fensburg Military Hospital on the 16th. He'd been serving with an ENSA concert party in Germany at the time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1818195237157617791)  2024-07-30T08:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"It's not everyday that Marty McFly high fives you in a traffic jam with his DeLorean door #beaulieusupercarweekend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1820154610050314484)  2024-08-04T17:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Scattymal Hi Malc it's the remains of an Observer Corps post. It was a brick structure but open at the top to allow the volunteers to look out for enemy planes. Bit like this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1820370535169069074)  2024-08-05T08:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Channel [--] is currently streaming a series called WW2 Women on the Frontline. Ep.1 includes the story of SOE agent Noor Inayat Khan and how she was trained in Beaulieu in the New Forest before her eventual capture and subsequent murder in a concentration camp. 1/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1821522673911931051)  2024-08-08T12:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"In [----] runways and concrete hard stands at Beaulieu Airfield New Forest were crushed and removed in to be used as hardcore in local construction projects. Anecdotally used in the 1970s under the M27 Cadnam Junction. But some pieces were spared. 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1823798717453099431)  2024-08-14T19:07Z [----] followers, 15.5K engagements


"I happen to have a concrete light base from one of the runways or hardstands which thankfully wasn't crushed. A friend of mine named Bob also has a salvaged light fitting from the airfield which fits into my concrete socket"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1823798720456278169)  2024-08-14T19:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Bob is a talented restorer and today gave me his light fitting from Beaulieu with a new bulb he's wired up. Today the two pieces were re-united for the first time in [--] years. I'll connect power ASAP and get it lit in my garden post some film hopefully in next week or so"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1823798724147216450)  2024-08-14T19:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"On this day [----] five people were killed in a direct hit on their Anderson shelter at [--] West Road Woolston Southampton. This is particularly poignant to me: my grandfather lived 200m away in Portsmouth Road Woolston. The area was a target due to the Spitfire factory. 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1827692676206231860)  2024-08-25T13:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I love browsing old newspaper archives. Read this last night from February [----] about Spitfire production in Southampton. Here's a thread of the a few of the images. 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1828433467266220296)  2024-08-27T14:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A row of nearly completed Vickers-Supermarine Spitfires at The Works: Machines whose prototype appeared at the RAF display at Hendon in [----] now in mass-production for the fighter squadrons of the air force"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1828433470202204166)  2024-08-27T14:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The mass-production of a day-and-night single-seater fighter which has a speed in excess of [---] mph: the centre sections of Spitfire fuselages which are built in three parts receiving their finishing touches after leaving the cradles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1828433473129894252)  2024-08-27T14:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Producing component parts for the Spitfire at the Supermarine works at Southampton: girls drilling and punching holes in metal accessories the speed with which the task is carried out in no way affecting the high standard of workmanship associated with RAF machines"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1828433476132958264)  2024-08-27T14:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Here you go just seen a Lancaster bomber flying over Bournemouth Pier"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1829144330163851774)  2024-08-29T13:09Z [----] followers, 28K engagements


"@RobL_L I think Charles Rolls of Rolls Royce died in an air crash at the Bournemouth meet - I think so anyway"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1830708764410069378)  2024-09-02T20:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"The Government state that the trials were carried out to help better understand how a biological attack might spread across the UK. Given the international situation at the time these trials were conducted in secret"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1831772262032101879)  2024-09-05T19:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"In the 1990s the MOD revealed that Beaulieu Airfield / RAF Beaulieu had been the site of some of the tests. Two tests had been conducted. Clouds of the chemical zinc cadmium sulphide were sprayed in arcs from the back of a Land Rover"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1831772264448053720)  2024-09-05T19:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I've transcribed memories written in [----] by a woman who served as a WAAF at RAF Sopley's radar station during WW2 from [----] to [----]. It's a long read but interesting to see how Sopley supported the RAF battle against the Luftwaffe. https://nfhwa.org/raf-sopley-history-ww2/ https://nfhwa.org/raf-sopley-history-ww2/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1833864075274580100)  2024-09-11T13:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"In woods next to St Marks Church in the Hampshire village of Ampfield is this small memorial. Not many know as it's not a place most would have reason to walk. It marks a spot where [--] young American men were killed in [----]. Today I met @dan_of_steele here. 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1834329393268719919)  2024-09-12T20:33Z [----] followers, 65.7K engagements


"On Sunday [--] July [----] a Cessna UC-78 Bobcat of HQ 84th Fighter Wing (at the time based at Station [---] Beaulieu) USAAF 9th Air Force flew from Carentan in France to RAF Chilbolton in England. On board were five Americans of the 50th Fighter Group"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1834329400671600967)  2024-09-12T20:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@TLWriteStuff01 @dan_of_steele Indeed. And thank you. Where Dan and I live there were many USAAF and RAF advanced landing grounds within a [--] mile radius. We're attempting to log all the fatalities of those men. Labour of love"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1834674699651236072)  2024-09-13T19:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"This Thursday I've been asked to speak at the Avon Valley Archaeological Society (AVAS). The presentation will be "The History of RAF Beaulieu: Airfield Stories & What Remains". The venue is Ibsley Village Hall BH24 3NL. Non-members [----] at 730pm. 1/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1835764986951713066)  2024-09-16T19:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"This is not my event so if you wish to know more please contact AVAS on their website search Google for "Avon Valley Archaeological Society". Hope to see some familiar faces. 2/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1835764989371523360)  2024-09-16T19:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I've found bottles (assume beer bottles) in the New Forest and wondered if someone can date them at all. Here's a close up of the logo on the bottle if anyone can help please"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1837925728144244885)  2024-09-22T18:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Today I heard Dale Johnson passed away. Last year he drove his [----] Austin [--] (pic in next tweet) from Ferndown to East Boldre to give a talk about the Home Guard. At the end of the evening he refused my offer to help to load the Austin back up with his props. 1/3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1839795832574407107)  2024-09-27T22:34Z [----] followers, 66.3K engagements


"@stockotrader @Birduder344 https://www.golfsmissinglinks.co.uk/index.php/england/south-west/hants-isle-of-wight-channel-islands/904-han-hook-park-golf-club-warsash-hants https://www.golfsmissinglinks.co.uk/index.php/england/south-west/hants-isle-of-wight-channel-islands/904-han-hook-park-golf-club-warsash-hants"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1842296740587667818)  2024-10-04T20:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@1940Andy Fantastic Andy I will reply some more info tomorrow thank you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1844128763183042775)  2024-10-09T21:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"There's a fenced off pond at Buskett's Lawn in the New Forest. which is fenced off for a very good reason. An incident happened here on this day [--] years ago. 1/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1845017972651290668)  2024-10-12T08:25Z [----] followers, 25.4K engagements


"A Royal Navy prototype attack jet aircraft came down here in [----] with the loss of two lives. This is the crater that became the pond. 2/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1845017975281078645)  2024-10-12T08:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"My dogs love the smell of chips. When we walk past the local chip shop they make such a huge scene the lady gives them free sausages to take home"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1845074683906916634)  2024-10-12T12:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"here's the story https://nfhwa.org/buccaneer-prototype-xk490-crash-busketts-lawn/ https://nfhwa.org/buccaneer-prototype-xk490-crash-busketts-lawn/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1845098377530278237)  2024-10-12T13:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I spend a lot of time researching aircraft incidents that occurred over the New Forest and often see a photo of one of those who lost their lives and it resonates with me. This is Donald MacNicol Canadian. He was just [--] when killed in a crash in Lymington. 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1846252037492953401)  2024-10-15T18:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"He looked so young. Admittedly in that photo in the first tweet it was when he signed up to join the Royal Canadian Air Force at age [--] but here's another photo of him that appears to be have been taken not long before his death"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1846252040793608331)  2024-10-15T18:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"He was from Winnipeg and was flying with No.406 Squadron (RCAF) out of RAF Colerne in Wiltshire. He was a navigator on a Mosquito a two man aircraft. On October [--] [----] eye witnesses saw the aircraft explode in mid air over Lymington in the New Forest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1846252042672586888)  2024-10-15T18:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The pilot managed to bale out and ended up in Lymington Hospital but MacNicol wasn't so lucky. He was found dead on the ground. In [----] MacNicol's mother wrote to the air force asking if she could have her son's belongings posted to her. He's buried in Surrey England"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1846252045122052428)  2024-10-15T18:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@SeaSpitfires I first became aware of his work when he did the Ronaldo statue"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1846872898549543113)  2024-10-17T11:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"As mentioned before there's a bloke who lives near me who decided to re-create the famous D-Day wall map from Southwick House. but in a bedroom in his own house. 😆 He invited me over today to see progress. 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1848697626998226973)  2024-10-22T12:07Z [----] followers, 236.3K engagements


"On this day [--] years ago [--] November [----] a Lancaster bomber collided in mid-air with a de Havilland Mosquito just off the Isle of Wight. The Queen Mary ocean liner made a 20-minute detour to look for survivors. 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1853041412184346971)  2024-11-03T11:47Z [----] followers, 10.1K engagements


"Queen Mary was coming into Southampton from New York. Most passengers were at dinner when lookouts reported a "colossal flame" 50ft. high four miles south of the Isle of Wight. RAF and rescue launches searched the area. Initially all they found was wreckage and a dinghy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1853041414679998968)  2024-11-03T11:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The St. Nicholas Church cemetery in Brockenhurst this morning. Some very interesting people here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1854836540238696689)  2024-11-08T10:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I posted this film I made a year ago and it was quite popular. If you didnt see it hope you like 👍 https://youtu.be/U_Q0JyrgRUcsi=3hc-0x0v81HbUgd9 https://youtu.be/U_Q0JyrgRUcsi=3hc-0x0v81HbUgd9"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1854883591479550088)  2024-11-08T13:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Found a little alleyway book store in Winchester at the weekend. Three narrow floors of second hand books. Hopefully you can smell the place just from my photo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1856364954573779210)  2024-11-12T15:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@WarrenBonathan @SeaSpitfires I spent the evening in the Wykeham Arms. I left thinking if all pubs were like that there would be no pubs closing down 🍻"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1856371037509660912)  2024-11-12T16:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"A helicopter made an emergency landing in the snow yesterday at Stoney Cross (Bournemouth Echo photo). 1/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1860042006808133861)  2024-11-22T19:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"On this day [--] November [----]. This is Edgar Perry. He survived the sinking of the Titanic in [----] only to be killed by a German bombing of Southampton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1860251258294010176)  2024-11-23T09:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Thought it interesting (poignant perhaps) how rain water has gathered in footprints that contractors left in the wet cement at the Mulberry Harbour construction site at Lepe New Forest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1861370601094389837)  2024-11-26T11:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@sonsrap10 Hi Trevor all good here I hope you too. I would imagine leftover from when salt was produced there. There are some great information panels about - you might see them No WW2 activity as far as I know"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1863588633162211735)  2024-12-02T14:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Today's winter theme photo was taken at the former RAF Hurn in [----] now Bournemouth Airport. G-AHNN Avro Tudor [---] airliner is seen here in the snow being scrapped at Bournemouth. 1/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1864222416815133093)  2024-12-04T08:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Twitspice The story has so many more elements as it happens. If you've heard of Hafner's Flying Jeep. it was the Flying Jeep that towed the Wagtail down the Beaulieu runways during testing. quite mad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1865429900816961732)  2024-12-07T16:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@wgloipp Yep. At Beaulieu airfield a jeep pulled a trailer to launch it off the runway. At Calshot a RAF Motor Launch flew it on the water"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1865430810679034187)  2024-12-07T16:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"He'd previously tried to sell the idea to the Nazi party but little did he know they'd go on to produce much more successful rockets than he ever could"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1865735243501613102)  2024-12-08T12:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Despite his hopes of winning business with the postal service in the New Forest it was not to be. A few seconds after launch his rocket crashed and sunk in mud on the Pennington Marshes a mile away from Lymington golf course"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1865735246076928094)  2024-12-08T12:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Things didn't get much better. weeks later he was arrested at a train station when found with explosives deported back to Germany on a charge of defrauding the Post Office and being a danger to national security. It was suspected he was a spy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1865735248115286022)  2024-12-08T12:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@ReassessHistory @FleetAirArmMus Sadly I had very little time to look about the museum itself. I was in storm Storm Darragh country so did the talk at 11am then decided to come back to the Forest in case weather got worse. Will go back for sure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1865834361280496099)  2024-12-08T19:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Delighted to say that all [--] seats for @BeaverWestminst Paul Beaver's Winkle talk sold out in just over an hour so. Paul will have copies of the book for sale on the night that I am sure he will be more than happy to sign so if you did get a ticket bring cash :-)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1867288499239731269)  2024-12-12T19:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"This is a bit nerdy was driving near Lymington today when I saw American bar and rod tracking being recycled as a fence. It's a section of runway taken from RAF Lymington. So on D-Day this fencing I spotted had these exact American P-47 Thunderbolts barreling down it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1867582950856176038)  2024-12-13T14:50Z [----] followers, 13.6K engagements


"@RufusRedbeard Theres also PSP local here too. Fencing used in farms etc. still useful to this day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1867690381124722821)  2024-12-13T21:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Saw this grave this morning. It's the resting place of Martyn King. He was just [--] when he died and is believed to be the youngest Battle of Britain pilot to be killed in action"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1868291973804593255)  2024-12-15T13:48Z [----] followers, 30.5K engagements


"He baled out of his Hurricane over Southampton but his parachute failed to open correctly - it's possible bullets had riddled his parachute pack pack when he was still in the aircraft"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1868291976606699727)  2024-12-15T13:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Hopefully this counts as turning the Christmas lights on in my garden. runway light from RAF Beaulieu. Restored and repaired and now connected to power so this possibly be first time it's been lit up since the 1940s. Red bulb seemed festive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1870143604867404201)  2024-12-20T16:25Z [----] followers, 31K engagements


"@dangerous155a My friend put an LED bulb in it for me with a 12v adapter plug"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1870148237576765684)  2024-12-20T16:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"If you're interested in the history of RAF Beaulieu I've been recording films on the airfield for the last [--] years. Search my channel for Beaulieu: https://www.youtube.com/@TrexplorerUK/ https://www.youtube.com/@TrexplorerUK/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1870236321882538188)  2024-12-20T22:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Just for fun. Happy Christmas all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1870242037875785946)  2024-12-20T22:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I made this for a Facebook group I run. [--] questions on New Forest and Hampshire's WW2 history. Link to the quiz is in second tweet. Hopefully I didn't mess any up. Have a great Christmas and New Year all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1870849412425203965)  2024-12-22T15:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"With [----] nearly here wanted to thank all the WW2 history guest speakers I booked to speak in the New Forest and those who came to the events. We sold out every talk (21 in total) meaning around [----] seats were warm and occupied this year. Have a great New Year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1873852578775122347)  2024-12-30T22:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


""A crowd of people at Aldershot watching the British Army's new airship 'Baby' being demonstrated." This appears to be Baby's maiden flight in May [----] The airship suffered from engine and stability problems so was rebuilt enlarged and renamed 'Beta'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1875106528698777851)  2025-01-03T09:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Luke Littler winning darts last night reminded me of something I saw in the derelict RAF Ibsley control tower. The photo shows holes in the wall surrounding the space where a dartboard was once hung upon which airmen of many nationalities played darts. (Visit with permission)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1875502670867525709)  2025-01-04T11:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Eventually they would be taken up the coastline of the east of England as part of Operation Quicksilver. This was a small part of a larger deception to trick the Germans into thinking the Allied invasion would come from the east coast. Photo taken today"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1876627191791866141)  2025-01-07T13:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@StevenHallDOP To my untrained eye they appear to be. @SeaSpitfires is your man for this if he sees the tweet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1876918982558601703)  2025-01-08T09:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"In May [----] Lord Beaverbrook a prominent newspaper baron and influential political figure established the Spitfire Fund. This was part of a broader effort to boost British morale and support the production of fighter aircraft in response to the threat of a German invasion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1880718119049764922)  2025-01-18T20:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Inspired by Jamaicas Daily Gleaner who had asked for the cost of a bomber. Beaverbrook thought why not see if public conscription funding would work for the Spitfire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1880718122723971534)  2025-01-18T20:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Today's the anniversary of the death of Htin Yain Lao. He was a Burmese pilot who came to England and volunteered to join the RAF. He married whilst based at RAF Needs Oar Point in the New Forest. When he was killed in action his wife was pregnant. He never met his son"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1881293889321177210)  2025-01-20T10:53Z [----] followers, 35.6K engagements


"I recently read his logbook. In his handwriting it tracks his adventures training in India and New Zealand before arriving in England"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1881293892760572078)  2025-01-20T10:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@OohTonyAdams I would love that. For full disclosure I am writing a book about Needs Oar Point airfield. It was only operational [--] months so won't be lengthy tome but anything I can add about the people there would be incredible thank you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1881426950088269978)  2025-01-20T19:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"On this day in [----] SOE agent Violette Szabo was executed in Ravensbrck concentration camp. She had received training in Beaulieu. The picture in the wheelchair was taken in Bournemouth after she'd been injured in a parachute jump"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1887056443834040561)  2025-02-05T08:31Z [----] followers, 17.5K engagements


"This is Antis the dog. He was a very good boy and received the Dickin Medal in [----] from the PDSA for bravery. He was the mascot of the No. [---] Czechoslovak Squadron RAF who flew from Beaulieu in the New Forest in WW2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1895851578986545572)  2025-03-01T15:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"If anyone is interested in the history of the D-Day airfield near Buckler's Hard - RAF Needs Oar Point - I am giving a talk to the Friends of Lepe at the Lepe beach classrooms next Tuesday 11th March. I am not organising it so if interested please email the lady on the flyer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1898089889716994243)  2025-03-07T19:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Wren boat crew on the Beaulieu River"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1898395796577431897)  2025-03-08T15:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Women's Land Army / Timber Corps in Lyndhurst"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1898395800087982128)  2025-03-08T15:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"80 years ago today something VERY BIG happened. The biggest ever bomb on UK soil was dropped. But not by the Luftwaffe. On [--] March [----] the Grand Slam bomb test was released over the New Forest. Here we see her heading towards what became Sandy Balls holiday park. 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1900123661782188119)  2025-03-13T09:55Z [----] followers, 61.5K engagements


"@steve4934 Great aerial view thanks Steve just one point though they were not sub pens its a popular theory but was actually a large concrete air raid shelter for testing how well the shelter design withstood large bombs. . Just happened to look like sub pens"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1900161122256273608)  2025-03-13T12:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Saw Brook Lampreys for the first time this week. Amazing little critters - they create pits in New Forest river bed by picking up small stones with their mouths then the male and female dump their sperm and eggs into the nest pit to make baby lampreys"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1906386837339349176)  2025-03-30T16:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I'm definitely [--] hours late to this but was at Hatchet Pond earlier and some joker has done this. Absolute dedication to an April Fools prank"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1907503102774669745)  2025-04-02T18:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Current fire at Calshot Spit the site of the former RAF Calshot. I saw lots of fire engines going that way two hours ago so finger's crossed. (photo by FlyBy Creations on FB)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1908250490355216464)  2025-04-04T20:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A lovely day so it was fitting to get the model control tower out of the RAF Ibsley Heritage Trust archives. plus it had a special visitor in the sun a model of Spitfire BL924 ('AZ-G' 'Skagen Ind'). 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1924153083333935290)  2025-05-18T17:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Im at a meeting at the former HMS Mastodon this morning and spied this anchor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1925846388744638938)  2025-05-23T09:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"In [----] Mr Bristow of Bransgore near Christchurch was digging his garden when he found a bracelet. Engraved on one side was Nick Stusiak and on the other 'Nick from Ellen'. The man's garden had been the crash site of a Typhoon in WW2. 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1927424506911424801)  2025-05-27T17:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"On this day [--] May [----] F/O Nicholas Stusiak of RAF Hurn was killed while during a mock dogfight with an American P-47 Thunderbolt. In an attempt to get on the P-47's tail aircraft stalled and spun crashed near Bransgore. He was a Ukranian Canadian"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1927424509268627870)  2025-05-27T17:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Dominos quite literally delivering to your door in Brockenhurst yesterday. Photo from the BBC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1929809952459087896)  2025-06-03T07:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"On this day [----] John "Jeep" Cable (pictured) Alan Marsh and Joseph Unsworth were killed testing the Cierva Air Horse helicopter from Southampton Airport. Cable lived in East Boldre and had been previously been at RAF Beaulieu testing captured German Focke Achgelis autogyros"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1933472132467409168)  2025-06-13T10:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"It's amazing to get feedback like this because I am not a "proper" Twitter historian with a published book (Mayne one day) - but people appreciate what I do and that's really good. Happy others share my interest :-) Made my day to finally make a talk by @NewForestRamble. It didnt disappoint. A tour de force lecture on the former RAF Lymington its contribution to D Day and other New Forest Airfields. https://t.co/Ux90prixhT Made my day to finally make a talk by @NewForestRamble. It didnt disappoint. A tour de force lecture on the former RAF Lymington its contribution to D Day and other New"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1935837809039847717)  2025-06-19T23:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"He was hit by flak and on the return to Lymington his comrades gathered in formation around him to offer him protection and nurse him home. The oil pressure in his P-47 Thunderbolt started to drop his aircraft began to lag and drift downwards towards sea"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1936528449591541877)  2025-06-21T20:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"At [----] feet flames erupted from the engine he baled out. His parachute was seen to hit the water his dinghy inflated but he wasnt seen getting into it. It was starting to get dark and his comrades could not locate him in the water so returned to the New Forest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1936528452615831633)  2025-06-21T20:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The Battle of Britain commenced this week in [----]. It is still possible to find scars on the New Forest and Hampshire landscapes from the fierce air battle including scattered debris still left on the surface"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1943602163743113281)  2025-07-11T09:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"My new office for the next few months has a good view"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1948134169353302370)  2025-07-23T21:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"You may be aware of the archaeological dig taking place at Buckler's Hard over the last fortnight. It was requisitioned during WW2 as part of HMS Mastodon and was used for the construction of motor torpedo boats dummy landing craft and a landing craft maintenance base. 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1953579768517210401)  2025-08-07T22:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"During the dig this steering wheel has been exposed (click to expand the photos). Some conjecture on the site has included it being the possible steering wheel from an LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) but no firm conclusion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1953579772229169379)  2025-08-07T22:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"His aircraft crashed near Rownhams School and he was lucky to survive. He received the Victoria Cross for this incident and returned to action. He was only Fighter Command Pilot to be Awarded the VC During WW2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1956651289275674691)  2025-08-16T09:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"In the same dogfight Pilot Officer Martyn King also baled out of his stricken Hurricane but his parachute collapsed and he fell to the ground and died. He's buried in All Saints Church Fawley. King was [--] when he died believed to be the youngest Battle of Britain pilot KIA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1956651291788087578)  2025-08-16T09:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Nicolson became a wing commander but was killed in May [----] when a RAF Liberator in which he was flying caught fire and crashed into the Bay of Bengal. His body was not recovered. He is commemorated on the Singapore Memorial"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1956651293604237806)  2025-08-16T09:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@happyhillers I don't know about printed only digital and the ones on NLS Maps. The Lyndhurst book fair though. once a month they have a guy selling hundreds of old maps"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NewForestRamble/status/1957088209843695840)  2025-08-17T14:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

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