Hmmm, I think it's likely that a good argument can be made that a great tour of pubs could be enjoyed by only stopping into the ones that are owned by celebs... you know about Clarkson's, and May's, but have you heard that Guy Martin bought one?

 

I realized the other day that I haven't heard about anything that Guy Martin's been up to for about 36 months, so I decided to look and see what he's been up to, and learned of the pub first.

It even has a Wall of Death! 

Then, I learned about the WW2 Lancaster bomber that he recently made a show about:

In June of 43, a Lancaster bomber was shot down in the Netherlands, and crashed in IJsselmeer lake. The bodies of 4 crew members washed ashore, but three airmen were never found – their remains assumed to still be in the wreckage of the plane.

In the summer of 2024,  the Dutch government funded attempts to recover the bomber from the lake, and find those missing airmen.

Guy helped build a massive caisson around the crash site, then it was drained to reveal the Lancaster for the first time in 80 years. 

https://www.guymartinracing.co.uk/guy-martins-lost-ww2-bomber/
https://www.facebook.com/GuyMartinRacing
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink/guy-martin-buys-village-pub-72869
https://www.dw.com/en/british-bomber-shot-down-in-wwii-to-be-recovered-from-dutch-lake/a-62996939

Ian McKellen owns a bar in London too, most likely it's near the theater district... and very expensive. 

Wall of death baby racers, probably motorcycle engine powered, 1925 or 26, on a bit of a world tour from Tokyo to Mexico City with Miss Lillian LaFrance's silo motordrome show

http://fastisfast.blogspot.com/2013/03/wall-of-death-images.html

Riddelsdell Brothers was established in Boxford, Suffolk, UK in 1900 and is believed to be Europe's oldest recorded working car garage.

Howard Watts, who has run Riddelsdell Brothers garage since 2001, described Boxford as a “niche village” with a wonderful history and community spirit.

His garage dates back to 1900 when it repaired traction engines and manufactured motorbikes.

“The unusual thing about our garage is that it is right the middle of the village – most businesses in similar locations have long since been turned into building sites,” Mr Watts said.

“We are a working garage where you can bring anything from a lawnmower to a Ferrari and we can sort it out.

“We get people who bring cars from all over Europe but at the other end of the scale, local people bring in wheelbarrows with punctures or come in and fill up a can with petrol for their lawnmower – it’s a well established part of the local community.

http://www.boxfordsuffolk.com/history.cfm?page=gallery
http://www.eaux.co.uk/riddelsdell-brothers-ltd/
https://howardwatts.co.uk/
https://howardwatts.co.uk/articles/the-martini-turbos

Enviably placed on the River Box in between three major towns and a mere 50-minute commute from London, Boxford has now been included in The Times newspaper’s ‘40 best villages in Britain’ and is listed as the 10th most desirable in the south of the country.

The Grade II-listed Boxford Stores, which has a recorded trading history dating back to 1420, reopened last December after shutting down in May 2013.

Businessmen Neil Cottrell and local egg farmer Robin Windmill now run it as a farm shop with extras that local people have requested, ranging from locally grown apples and bread to traditional sweets in jars.

http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/thriving-boxford-rated-among-britain-s-best-villages-1-4459848

The village sign in Boxford welcomes many a visitor every year, but few outsiders are aware of the meaning of the symbolism in the design, nor of the controversy around the inclusion of various elements in it.

 The most controversial of all the elements. In the 1920s, Tornado Smith of Wall of Death fame lived at the White Hart Inn with his parents. He was well known in the thirties for riding the wall of Death with a lioness called Briton on the motorcycle.

What a character!

Yes, I really do just stumble across a lot of stuff I post... this all started out with a simple desire to post a photo of the oldest garage in England (alleged) and wound up with a Wall Of Death and lion story

http://www.boxfordsuffolk.com/history.cfm?page=sign

Bessie Stringfield, finally getting some long overdue praise, in a great little illustrated book

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2018/04/07/four-links-motorcycle-bicentennial-bessie-b-stringfield-helene-rother-buried-daimler/

http://rejectedprincesses.tumblr.com/post/163529423683/bessie-stringfield-1911-1993-the-motorcycle
http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/bessie-stringfield
via https://swarfs.tumblr.com/

to order the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062405373/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0062405373&linkCode=as2&tag=rejectedprinc-20&linkId=af6c373c18b41107dca166e7852844f5

Illustrated in a contemporary animation style, Rejected Princesses turns the ubiquitous "pretty pink princess" stereotype portrayed in movies, and on endless toys, books, and tutus on its head, paying homage instead to an awesome collection of strong, fierce, and yes, sometimes weird, women: warrior queens, soldiers, villains, spies, revolutionaries, and more who refused to behave and meekly accept their place.

An entertaining mix of biography, imagery, and humor written in a fresh, young, and riotous voice, this thoroughly researched exploration salutes these awesome women drawn from both historical and fantastical realms, including real life, literature, mythology, and folklore. Each profile features an eye-catching image of both heroic and villainous women in command from across history and around the world, from a princess-cum-pirate in fifth century Denmark, to a rebel preacher in 1630s Boston, to a bloodthirsty Hungarian countess, and a former prostitute who commanded a fleet of more than 70,000 men on China’s seas.

the wall of death at the Allahabad fairgrounds

The Wall of Remembrance is coming to San Diego in mid Sept. It is a 100-foot-long wall listing the military personnel, police, firefighters and civilians who have died as a result of war and acts of terrorism over the last three decades.

The huge blocks of names are reminiscent of the Vietnam memorial wall. But this memorial has an added element, a back side with pictures and brief text of events dating back to 1983,

The other side has a timeline of the War on Terror, which goes back as far as 1983, covering: 1983 Beirut bombings on U.S. military barracks when 241 American military personnel were killed by a truck bomb while stationed in Beirut, Lebanon;
Gulf War Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm;
the Battle of Mogadisu in 1993 in Somalia;
Bosnia intervention in the 1990s;
USS Cole bombing in Yemen in 2000;
September 11 attacks;
War on Terror operations in Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Freedom Sentinal);
 War on Terror operations in Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation New Dawn and Operation Iron Resolve);
the Ft. Hood, Texas shooting;
 the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya;
 the Boston Marathon bombings;
the shooting at the Chattanooga, Tennessee military recruiting station;
 and the terrorist attack at a health center in San Bernardino.

https://www.rearareasupport.org/memorial.html

September 16th and 17th 2016
Indian Motorcycles of El Cajon San Diego,
345 N. Magnolia

Red Bull's magazine, the Red Bulletin (which is free to subscribe to, they will even send it to you!) has a wall of death featured in this months issue

https://www.redbulletin.com/us/us/sports/hell-on-wheels-americas-oldest-extreme-sport

Lillian La France, great wall of death rider

Found on http://www.vintag.es/2015/03/photos-of-early-women-motorcycle.html

Belinfante Indian Motorcycles Blogspot scored! Phil found a video of Fearless Egbert and his lion riding the wall of death!

thanks Phil! http://belinfante-indian-motorcycles.blogspot.com/2012/04/wall-of-death-indian-scout-101-lion.html

a new lion and driver in a wall of death show from the 1930's or 40's

found on http://stiffspeed.tumblr.com

Mr Egbert http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/01/wall-of-death.html

Wall of Death motorcycles that Phil has posted on his Indian Motorcycle focused blog

found in various posts at http://belinfante-indian-motorcycles.blogspot.com/

Elvis and the Wall of Death movie "Roustabout" had Norm Grabowski in it!

A different picture of Mr Egbert and his lion, on the wall of death

above via: http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/the-wall-of-death-daredevils-lions-riders-fairs-oh-my/

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/01/wall-of-death.html was the first and only pic I'd seen of this, but here's one I haven't ever seen before

The above picture is 1929, taken at Revere Beach, MA

The wall of death, somehow appealed to sidecar lions!

Why Mr Egbert has a lion that loves a drive on the wall of death is a mystery

and Ethel Purtle with her lion King:

https://www.factinate.com/things/38-astonishing-facts-historys-craziest-circus-performers/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_death

Mr Egbert taking his 5 year old lion out for a ride on the wall of death at Mitchum fair, Jan 1935. http://www.viewimages.com/Search.aspx?mid=2659974&epmid=3&partner=Google

https://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?5156036-Vintage-photos-Awesome!&p=82966582&viewfull=1#post82966582