What happened to the Spitfire which once stood at Perdiswell? Well, it turns out it is now in a museum in Glasgow.
It was presented to Worcester’s Air Training Corps, in 1954, standing as a gate guard in Droitwich Road near the gates to Perdiswell Park.
Controversially, it was borrowed and lent out for filming for the 1968 film The Battle of Britain and never returned.
Between 1970 and 1989, it was ‘guarding the gates’ at RAF Locking and RAF Leuchars before returning to storage at RAF St Athan.
Happily, the engine was removed and given to an airworthy Spitfire belonging to the RAF’s Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, but the airframe remained in storage until it was taken off the MoD’s inventory and gifted to the City of Glasgow in 1997.
It finally returned to Glasgow in 1998 and spent five years undergoing restoration at the Museum of Flight in East Fortune.
In 2005, with inches to spare and some extra strengthening to the building, it was suspended in the atrium at Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery, where it remains to this day.
Do you remember the Perdiswell Spitfire from its days as a gate guard?
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