With over 5,100 already signed maybe we too have “slipped the surly bonds of Earth / And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings”!
We have signed for all who designed, built, tested, delivered, flew and maintained the Spitfire.
We’ve signed for all who worked in all the factories making the raw materials; for those who worked in the secret workshops: - garages, bus depots, a laundry, a strawberry basket factory, a silk stocking mill and a roller skating rink - making parts from bolts to starter buttons, from washers to wings.
And we have signed to save this unique building: for its amazing past, for its uncertain present and for future generations to know the universal heritage it represents.
Looking at it now, (a glimpse as you turn off at Junction 5 on the M27 or from behind the security fence of the site it occupies) it still raises the hairs on the back of your neck to think of what sights it and the men and women who worked there once saw.
And the final irony? The planning application is proposing to paint the replacement warehouses in a lovely shade of… Merlin Grey!
The message of your signatures will be heard and could just make the difference when decisions are made.
At least every third person who has signed has shared the petition – via email, social media etc. Please keep this up and spread the link far and wide.
Tally ho!