[uckwash]

One further point, although I'm not sure it will hold any interest.

That is this:

Artefacts, remains & the accompanying research & findings from a/c crash sites in Kent seem often to be almost exclusively kept within the domain of a few bands of brothers? Clubs (& individuals) past & present operating during the window of opportunity that was, with metal detecting in its infancy?

Information not freely circulated, or obtainable? Therefore whilst it is easy to be disparaging about using books like 'A/c casualties in Kent' written probably mainly 'in the dark' so-to-speak 'A/c casualties in Kent' is a bloody good effort, at least as far as was possible, by a group not engaged at the time during the first 'age of opportunity'?

Lets say I was trying to write such a book, without the help & support afforded to other publications from such groups, without Internet forums, how otherwise would I get anywhere near the Scientific accuracy & factualness Peter is aluding to without any privileges that might be possibly have been afforded him in 'BoB then & Now' (of access to such data)?

If I'm wrong to think rivalry doesn't exist amongst individuals & societies of Aviation historians & archaeologists, over the sharing of information, please feel free to correct me for intuitively believing for some obscure reason is a problem.

I myself have only been following up the current line of research, a decade, so excuse me if I appear surprised. I defy any relative newcomer to break the ranks of those 'in the know'.

If all information has in fact always been available to one and all, I am indeed wrong.
Then there is, I agree, a case to be disparaging about 'A/c casualties in Kent' on the basis that very little effort was therefore expended in its preparation, and editing, to ensure that it was worth the paper that it was indeed written upon. However if there were issues relating to the above, regarding accessability of certain records, I can't blame Baxter, Owen & Baldock, for their seemingly superficial presentation, of whatever they had on hand.

Dave