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Welcome to the Isle of Wight Military and Heritage Museum .

 The older video updated with a more traditional soundtrack

The Tame Critters of Langley Whidbey Island WA USA

My Assets at the Tank Museum

Property that was mine before the IOW MHM failed and that became mine after the receivers came in and accepted the levying of distraint and transferred ownership of them to me in lieu of unpaid rent etc . Vehicles Humber Pig Have Log Book Reg No. Scaracen APC Have Log Book Reg No. Foden Limber Have Log Book Reg No BDRM ( Swapped with Bovingdon for spares ) Tanks WilliamThe conqueror Tank 41 BA 16 (source: R. Griffin/Conqueror). Russian T 54A      “601-15 M6520-6749 1-129”? stamped into upper glacis. “30 332”? and grid stamped into lower glacis. A 41 Centurion Gun Tank   “178” stamped into lower right glacis. CenturionArmoured Vehicle Royal Engineers “EMPIRE D&U 40736T 214” cast into right turret side Centurion Armoured Recovery Vehicle .“39 MS 98...

B 17 propeller at the Isle of Wight Military and Heritage Museum

Save our Deactivated Firearms !

Amend This Stupid Directive  ! Sign The Petition ! HERE Citizens will loose the right to own even " permanently deactivated" ex-guns like these even if their ancestors carried them in defense of liberty !   The European Union , allegedly in response to the Paris terror attacks carried out with actual machine guns , seem to thin k prohibiting law abiding citizens from owning "permanently deactivated" ( ie non working ) guns will somehow make the people safer . It seems that some Balkan states now in the EU previously had very shoddy procedures for deactivation of the many surplus weapons that abounded there after their civil war and the fall of Communism . These procedures have now been brought in line with existing EU law and thus the stable door is already shut on " convertible " Deactivated weapons . Adding permanently deactivated ex-guns to this ban  will do nothing whatsoever to give the  slightest inconvenience to terrorists or c...