Today I made a visit to The North East Land Sea & Air Museum – NELSAM – sits on the former RAF Usworth and Sunderland airport site, next to the Sunderland Nissan site www.nelsam.org.uk
www.colinwilbourn.co.uk
[Music] [Music] [Music] Hey, can’t you show me something I’ve not seen before? Magic tricks. I’m pirate ships. They just don’t work no more. Good morning. It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve been out. Um been on holiday and bits and bobs like that. So um thought we’d get out of here. So today going to have a ride to um the air and land museum at Washington Strokes. It’s uh just down by Nissan. So we’re going to go there today. um going down the east line um through fence houses and onto um Elbert Park, then down to Biddy Woods, you know, the usual way into Sunland. So, also while we’re out, I’ve uh just put some new uh Continental tires on. They’re at Treads. Um they’re available online and uh they’re a bargain actually. They’re under sale. So, we’re going to give them a ride out. I did have some mountain bike tires on me on me bike, but the road noise was horrendous. Like, so we’ve gone for these and I’ll show you them now. As you can see, there is tread on the inside, but uh your knobbybly grippy bit is on the outside, which gives you a lot more grip in the corners and stuff like that. Plus, um the road noise won’t be so bad. So, going to give them a go into here and uh let you know how we get on at the end of the video. Thank you. You make me feel like I haven’t felt for years. Let me laugh like it did when I was a kid. Till I burst into tears. They may count the diamond stars and drink the water crystal clear. I’ll be rejoice [Music] [Music] [Music] anymore. [Music] But uh El Park now. Uh the sculpture behind me was um created by Colin Wellbborne um back in the the ’90s when the place was redeveloped. It was originally a a cork works. The sculpture is here to commemorate all the miners that worked here back in the day. So, Elbert Park was um regenerated back in in the in the ’90s. And they reckon that was over 70,000 trees planted here. And when you look around the place, you can well believe it. It’s a lovely spot. So, if you ever around these places, it’s a great place to walk your dogs or even bike trail, something like that. Just get yourselves out. No, I won’t fool anymore. Oh, I won’t pause the fool’s cold anymore. [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] We used to never say never used to think forever flying free. Go running and hiding. Go slipping. [Music] Every time we call [Music] [Music] back to the best of days, collecting our yesterday as they build up one by [Music] Oh, how we beg and we borrow. See, we do it tomorrow, but tomorrow never seems to come. We used to say, [Music] right, we made it down to the the air museum at Southernland behind, as you can see, one of the the Vulcan bombers. Uh they were designed back in the 1950s to like take carry nuclear weapons basically and the last saw action I believe in in the Faultlands and uh the flew to the to the um the Falton Islands. Refueled on the way did the missions and flew all the way back to see um the last flight of the Vulcan bomber. We’re at um crops. It could be back now when it did a fly over and it was a fantastic site. Like the roar of the engines is a wet over a majestic sight like but sadly no more. And um they’re all just in museums now. Always wanted to learn Spanish. Travel around South America. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat up here. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] Do you remember when we were too beautiful parts. We would light up the sky when we’d fly. You were orange and red light, sun eyes, green eyes, and apples high. You said you loved all the songs that I sing like nothing that you ever heard. And I said I loved you with all of my heart when we were two beautiful birds. [Music] [Music] [Music] Do you remember when we were two beautiful birds? We sing away in the morning. You were silver and blue like gold in each new I was cold as a summer sun. One day you watched for a different song. One that I just couldn’t sing. I got the melody sharp was all wrong. Those were the last days of spring. To build a nest, we pecked feathers from our chest like a book tearing out every page. [Music] Want to know that these feathers would grow into a beautiful cage? [Music] So that was our rides down in the air and transport museum. It’s been a cunning ride down and it was only 7 quid to get here. It’s been out really. Um, so yeah, nice steady ride down and I can report the new tires. They did a cracking job. They were really quiet on the road and um, yeah, held the gravel really well. So that’s a 10 out of 10 for the tires. Money well spent, even if it wasn’t the sale. So uh, if you like the videos, like and subscribe and I’ll see you on the next one.
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Great video👌