Steve
@thetoepunter.bsky.social
Raised on a diet of Gunston and St.Michael. Aviation, military history and The Posh.
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🎄🚨 COMPETITION TIME! 🚨🎄
WIN a SIGNED copy of Thunder Run: Meiktila 1945! The greatest battle you’ve never heard of!
Just repost any of these posts over the next few days, and on Sunday I’ll pick a winner at random. #WNTL?
#ww2 #history #author #writer #christmas #xmas #present #competition #win
WIN a SIGNED copy of Thunder Run: Meiktila 1945! The greatest battle you’ve never heard of!
Just repost any of these posts over the next few days, and on Sunday I’ll pick a winner at random. #WNTL?
#ww2 #history #author #writer #christmas #xmas #present #competition #win
December 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
🎄🚨 COMPETITION TIME! 🚨🎄
WIN a SIGNED copy of Thunder Run: Meiktila 1945! The greatest battle you’ve never heard of!
Just repost any of these posts over the next few days, and on Sunday I’ll pick a winner at random. #WNTL?
#ww2 #history #author #writer #christmas #xmas #present #competition #win
WIN a SIGNED copy of Thunder Run: Meiktila 1945! The greatest battle you’ve never heard of!
Just repost any of these posts over the next few days, and on Sunday I’ll pick a winner at random. #WNTL?
#ww2 #history #author #writer #christmas #xmas #present #competition #win
@norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social
Not sure if I posted this one before. My Dad’s compositors equipment. Helpfully he labelled a lot of it up. My Dad worked for the same firm for 52 years.
Not sure if I posted this one before. My Dad’s compositors equipment. Helpfully he labelled a lot of it up. My Dad worked for the same firm for 52 years.
November 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM
@norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social
Not sure if I posted this one before. My Dad’s compositors equipment. Helpfully he labelled a lot of it up. My Dad worked for the same firm for 52 years.
Not sure if I posted this one before. My Dad’s compositors equipment. Helpfully he labelled a lot of it up. My Dad worked for the same firm for 52 years.
@hushkit.bsky.social Dublin. Prob early 70s
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
@hushkit.bsky.social Dublin. Prob early 70s
@hushkit.bsky.social Dad’s shot. Possibly Eire. Maybe here…
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
@hushkit.bsky.social Dad’s shot. Possibly Eire. Maybe here…
Tonight I fired up a 60s Halina Viewer from my wife’s side and used it for a box of Dad’s slides. Old skool magic.
November 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Tonight I fired up a 60s Halina Viewer from my wife’s side and used it for a box of Dad’s slides. Old skool magic.
Out of one of Dad’s books. He never mentioned any WW1 family history from his side. Feels original not repro. @sommecourt.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Out of one of Dad’s books. He never mentioned any WW1 family history from his side. Feels original not repro. @sommecourt.bsky.social
Letter from the Typographical Association welcoming Dad to the guild. Certificated 12 Feb 1951. He was 17. @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Letter from the Typographical Association welcoming Dad to the guild. Certificated 12 Feb 1951. He was 17. @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social
@loreandordure.com @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social @typejunky.bsky.social wife is going to kill me but I’ve found another box of my Dad’s printing ephemera!!
November 16, 2025 at 10:37 AM
@loreandordure.com @norwichprintmuseum.bsky.social @typejunky.bsky.social wife is going to kill me but I’ve found another box of my Dad’s printing ephemera!!
My stupid idea to build a Commando Comic wall piece just based on editions featuring the Beaufighter has, predictably, resulted in me trying to find them all. So far I’ve identified 21 comics.
Oddly absolutely none of them show a Banff or North Coates Strike Wing aircraft with the stripes.
Oddly absolutely none of them show a Banff or North Coates Strike Wing aircraft with the stripes.
November 1, 2025 at 1:08 AM
My stupid idea to build a Commando Comic wall piece just based on editions featuring the Beaufighter has, predictably, resulted in me trying to find them all. So far I’ve identified 21 comics.
Oddly absolutely none of them show a Banff or North Coates Strike Wing aircraft with the stripes.
Oddly absolutely none of them show a Banff or North Coates Strike Wing aircraft with the stripes.
Arnhem image in the IWM I’d not seen before.
October 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Arnhem image in the IWM I’d not seen before.
One for @robertglennie.bsky.social - I enjoyed listening to parents teaching their kids absolute nonsense today. Apparently WW2 was the first time troops encountered tanks. “Imagine seeing that for the first time”. So close..
October 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
One for @robertglennie.bsky.social - I enjoyed listening to parents teaching their kids absolute nonsense today. Apparently WW2 was the first time troops encountered tanks. “Imagine seeing that for the first time”. So close..
I’ve been buying Commando comics with Beaufighters. I was happy I’d found nine. Nice number for framing.
Damn it I think this is ten…
Damn it I think this is ten…
October 16, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I’ve been buying Commando comics with Beaufighters. I was happy I’d found nine. Nice number for framing.
Damn it I think this is ten…
Damn it I think this is ten…
@hushkit.bsky.social I sold my original of this in the late 90s for 50p at a car boot. Got a good one back for a tenner! 👌 Classic M&S seemingly designed just to fit the F-104. Soon I’ll be replicating the pain of getting it on a shelf. 🤣
September 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
@hushkit.bsky.social I sold my original of this in the late 90s for 50p at a car boot. Got a good one back for a tenner! 👌 Classic M&S seemingly designed just to fit the F-104. Soon I’ll be replicating the pain of getting it on a shelf. 🤣
Some WW1 maritime history at Grimsthorpe Castle. #WW1 #RoyalNavy
September 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Some WW1 maritime history at Grimsthorpe Castle. #WW1 #RoyalNavy
On a list of least surprising events this would definitely feature. Almost not news.
On reports from The Guardian that Boris Johnson has been profiting from contacts he made while PM, Lib Dem Sarah Olney MP said:
"These allegations are extremely shocking.
"This is yet another reminder of how deep the rot in the Conservative Party goes — it is riddled by sleaze and scandal."
"These allegations are extremely shocking.
"This is yet another reminder of how deep the rot in the Conservative Party goes — it is riddled by sleaze and scandal."
September 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
On a list of least surprising events this would definitely feature. Almost not news.
@sommecourt.bsky.social kids on park so looked in neighbouring graveyard. I can only find one D Compton on CWGC. His death recorded Oct 18, Kassel. Assume PoW. Lincolnshire Bn fits area.
September 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
@sommecourt.bsky.social kids on park so looked in neighbouring graveyard. I can only find one D Compton on CWGC. His death recorded Oct 18, Kassel. Assume PoW. Lincolnshire Bn fits area.
You think you’ve seen everything and then you witness the Boeing BV-347 @hushkit.bsky.social (my photo, US Army Aviation Museum, Fort Rucker, AL)
August 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
You think you’ve seen everything and then you witness the Boeing BV-347 @hushkit.bsky.social (my photo, US Army Aviation Museum, Fort Rucker, AL)
Annual #Lancastria remembrance post. Somewhere out there my grandad is learning to swim.
June 17, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Annual #Lancastria remembrance post. Somewhere out there my grandad is learning to swim.
The quality of your average RAF flypast this century is pretty consistent with the penny pitching culture that has sucked the life out of MoD. Paltry. Every frontline type should be a three ship minimum. No Hawk T2?
June 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The quality of your average RAF flypast this century is pretty consistent with the penny pitching culture that has sucked the life out of MoD. Paltry. Every frontline type should be a three ship minimum. No Hawk T2?
Any news on the Iranian Tomcats @hushkit.bsky.social ?
June 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Any news on the Iranian Tomcats @hushkit.bsky.social ?
One last look around Land Warfare Hall. Today we are sharing the space with the contractors doing the demolition!!
May 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
One last look around Land Warfare Hall. Today we are sharing the space with the contractors doing the demolition!!
#ReadyForDuty at IWM Duxford today. A great display in very windy conditions!
May 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM
#ReadyForDuty at IWM Duxford today. A great display in very windy conditions!
MY EYES…Lest We Forget Su-34s, Brad Pitt and Call of Duty.
May 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
MY EYES…Lest We Forget Su-34s, Brad Pitt and Call of Duty.
@britwarmemorial.bsky.social Uffington church near Stamford. Memorial to Lt. Anthony F Trollope-Bellew (KIA El-Alamein) whose family own Casewick Hall and P.O Norman Cherry, RAF lost in O.T.U Anson EF967. 1/2
May 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
@britwarmemorial.bsky.social Uffington church near Stamford. Memorial to Lt. Anthony F Trollope-Bellew (KIA El-Alamein) whose family own Casewick Hall and P.O Norman Cherry, RAF lost in O.T.U Anson EF967. 1/2