THE HIDDEN HEROES AFTER-WAR MEMORIAL AT TALLY HO FARM WINKFIELD SL4 4RZ ENGLAND
   
 
  What archaeologists may give thanks for a few hundred years from now
 
   
  Another Thanksgiving angle: the two Tally Ho Hoards
     

WELCOME & BASICS

CONTENTS 

LOCATION

NEWS 

TALKS  

CONTACT 

 

HAPPY LANDINGS CLUB
 

BEFRIENDING FLY2HELP & ROSIE
THE RIVETER CHARTER HIGH

 

CHAMPIONS AT TALLY HO FARM

2014 TIME CAPSULE

OUR B17's CREW

TCAAP IN MINNESOTA

ROSIES IN LONG BEACH 

INFORMATEERS

    

SCHWEINFURT RECONCILED 1943-2014

USAAF MEMORIALS IN UK

RETURNERS HOME

BLACK THURSDAY

DETECTORISTS  

 

BOMBEE'S EYE VIEW

SCHOOLS CITIZENSHIP STUDIES

 

PERHAPS THE MOST INNOVATIVE aspect of Thanksgiving Field is not what was dug up but what's going to be put back.

Very early on I had the idea of placing a time capsule there called the Tally Ho Hoard. 

And the contents were to be something that would amuse and bemuse archaeologists and metal detectorists perhaps several centuries ahead.

Hence the suggestion to all sorts of communities that they might like to to include something very simple that reflects a good cause or action they're proud of supporting.

And in the same box will be some other cheery items.  So in the future, perhaps someone will say: gosh, in 2014 they were rather nice - and civilised.


  What's happening with what was found in the Field?
 
  • Cartridge #1 is going to the Lyng and Disher families in the USA as a collective family heirloom


  • Cartridge #2 is going back home to Twin Cities, Minnesota, where it was made in 1943


  • Cartridge #3 is going to the city of Schweinfurt via the churches there as a symbol of reconciliation


  • Cartridge #4 may be buried, or retained for education, perhaps in the safe keeping of the Thomas family at Tally Ho Farm


  • Lump of molten aluminium #1 is going home to Long Beach where it was made as a B17 in 1943, via Rosie the Riveter Foundation to their Park and Interpretive Center


  • Lump of molten aluminium #2 has been offered to the Boeing Aircraft Corporation


  • The brass tag labelled J.H.L. will be kept by Tally Ho Farm to await the owner claiming it, whenever


  • The Two Pence coin is going to HM Queen Elizabeth II, as a token of her own wartime service and mother of combat returner - and as a bit of cash to spend at Royal Ascot - perhaps via one of the Royal household at Windsor
  • The battered coin with no identity will go to the Reminiscence Group at Whitegrove Library, who dug up eyewitnesses to the B17's arrival in 1943.
  • The small and well-ploughed battered lock with known provenance will be parked for the present

 





   
  What's going in to the Tally Ho Hoard Time Capsule?
 
  • The Hoard will be buried in soil sent from the Air Force Memorial Park in Schweinfurt by Pastor Dieter Schorn of the Lutheran Church deanery there; and from the airfield at Podington in Bedfordshire, where the Winkfield Flying Fortress started from on 14 October 1943.


  • REJECTED WITH THANKS - IDENTITY BADGE for Gladys Williams of Winkfield District used by her as a riveter of Wellington bombers during WW2.


  • CAFOD BADGE from St Margaret Clitherow Catholic Primary School in Hanworth, Bracknell, reflecting their long support for this aid agency in fundraising and taking part in national campaigns for social justice.


  • BOTTLED BREATHING SPACE from Sidcot School in North Somerset, where the Director of their Centre for Peace and Global Studies says "As a Quaker school this would be a fitting alignment to looking at a varied contribution to war, we would certainly be highlighting those that made nonviolent contributions to conflict." (She had written an engaging letter in The Guardian on how the daily silences in the school had offered breathing space for over 300 years.)


  • RIVETS FROM THE CURRENT C17 PRODUCTION LINE in Long Beach, California - being arranged by District 5 Councillor Gerrie Schipske.  It's possible these may be touched by Elinor Otto, one of the Rosie the Riveters there in 1943 and still at work, to leave some DNA for future generations to analyse and marvel at.


  • FLY2 HELP PIN AND WRISTBAND provided  by the charity's team based at Cotswold Airport near Kemble in Gloucestershire.
  • BALLBEARINGS FROM SCHWEINFURT provided by Michael Schramp, the pastoral assistant at St Josef's Church.
  • PIN FROM THE SECOND SCHWEINFURT MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION
  • OBJECTS FROM THE TWIN CITIES ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT in Ramsey County Minnesota, being provided by the County's Deputy Director of the regeneration project.
  • REDUNDANT BOOK DATESTAMPED 13 JUNE 2014 from Whitegrove Library - finder in 3014 to pay the fine.
  • FAIRTRADE BADGE AND WOODEN CRUCIFIX made by a Fairtrade community in Bethlehem, provided by the Social Justice Organiser at Bracknell Catholic Parish of St Joseph & St Margaret Clitherow.
  • BRASS RAF AIRCREW UNIFORM BADGE made  by Firmin of London with no known provenance. This is reminder of the gallant ground staff at RAF Winkfield who went to the rescue of the B17 crew on 14 October 1943 - and had to find their way back to quarters in the blackout, helped along by some colourful use of language.`
  • 1943 THREEPENNY PIECE - to represent other metal workers of WW2. With eight sides, this is also a reminder of days before Britain discovered the value of decimal coinage...
  • BALLBEARINGS made in Schweinfurt by the Schaeffler Company - one which has long been in the city.


FAG-brand ballbearings from the Schaeffler factory in Schweinfurt shown with soil from St Josef's church in Obersdorf brought to the UK by their pastoral worker Michael Pfrang

  
Gladys the Riveter Williams with her badge -
and the book about life in her factory.


Some of the items for the Tally Ho Hoard
Black Thursday badge from the Second Schweinfurt Memorial Association; Fly2Help pin; CAFOD badge; RAF aircrew button; threepenny piece; Fairtrade badge
 
 
 

WELCOME & BASICS

CONTENTS 

LOCATION

NEWS 

TALKS  

CONTACT 

 

HAPPY LANDINGS CLUB
 

BEFRIENDING FLY2HELP & ROSIE
THE RIVETER CHARTER HIGH

 

CHAMPIONS AT TALLY HO FARM

2014 TIME CAPSULE

OUR B17's CREW

TCAAP IN MINNESOTA

ROSIES IN LONG BEACH 

INFORMATEERS

    

SCHWEINFURT RECONCILED 1943-2014

USAAF MEMORIALS IN UK

RETURNERS HOME

BLACK THURSDAY

DETECTORISTS  

 

BOMBEE'S EYE VIEW

SCHOOLS CITIZENSHIP STUDIES