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SR.53 photos courtesy of GKN Aerospace with thanks to Ray Wheeler for the captions

The SARO Apprentices Reunion Centre at East Cowes Town Hall

SR.53 Build

SR.53 in flight

SR.53 Assembly Bay in Columbine Hangar

SR.53 with Firestreak guided missiles fiited to the wing tips.  Farnborough 1957  

SR.53  landing

SR.53 take off

SR.53 landing at Farnborough with Firestreak guided missiles fiited to the wing tips. 

First take-off of the SR.53 at Boscombe Down - 6th May 1957

The characteristic diamond pattern of the Spectre efflux clearly visible

John Farthing's 1924 Bullnose Morris before restoration with Mick Adams and Pete Bedding (J Farthing)

East Cowes Chuch Fete - SARO Apprentices Group circa 1957/58, l to r - D Cheal, ? ( Metal Props), Mick Horne, Peter Rutherford, Ken Harrison ( K Harrison)

 

 

Rugby at Whippingham - late 1950s ( J Farthing)

Apprentices' production of "A Worm's Eye View" ( R Kearin)

 

 

Opening of gymnasium- 1954 (SARO Progress)

Not all Work ( SARO Progress)

 

Osborne canteen 1956 

Osborne Training School 1956 

Osborne Canteen 1956

Back Row- Ron Hedicarr, Dave Bambrough, Edgar Jones, Tim Blishen. 

Front Row - Terry Bennett, Derek Harbour, Dave Boyce, Bill Jefferies 

Osborne Training School 1956

Unknown, Tim Blishen, Terry Bennett 

 

VTS 1949

Training School and House 1956

V. T. Stevenson -1949

Training School and House circa 1956

 

 

Saunders Roe Photo Archive - Training School Workshop - 1957

Saunders Roe Photo Archive - Training School Machine Shop - 1957
Training School Workshop, 1957
Training School Machine Shop, 1957
 
 
Saunders Roe Photo Archive - Hostel Dormitory - 1957
Saunders Roe Photo Archive - Training School - 1961
Hostel Dormitory, 1957
Training School - 1961