Who remembers the Brocock Fox ?

[chieffool]

Yes!
It's not open to the public but appointments can be made if you have a scholarly interest.

I was just trying to look it up when your reply went 'ping'! Happy days.

I visited twice with Dad, and he sadly passed away over 21 years ago so I must be getting old. Met the curator (what a job) who Dad had clearly known for some considerable time even then. The only 'Herb' I've ever encountered so far and unbelievably knowledgeable, though can't remember his full name. A truly extraordinary place.

Actually.... I do have a scholarly reason for going there... and its in Leeds (if anyone wants to join the coach party).

[Geezer]

the 'Enfield Pattern Room'. Incidentally, does that still exist ?

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Yes!
It's not open to the public but appointments can be made if you have a scholarly interest.

The Enfield Pattern Room no longer exists, since the deeply misguided destruction of Royal Small Arms Factory (RSAF) Enfield and its replacement by a new factory in Nottingham, 99% of whose employees had no experience in manufacturing firearms, let alone the nation's primary service weapon. Which explains, at least in part, why the SA80 Mk1 was such a crock of crock-content.

Its contents are now part of the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds and can indeed be accessed if you can persuade them that you are a scholarly academic researcher.

[Geezer]

I was just trying to look it up when your reply went 'ping'! Happy days.

I visited twice with Dad, and he sadly passed away over 21 years ago so I must be getting old. Met the curator (what a job) who Dad had clearly known for some considerable time even then. The only 'Herb' I've ever encountered so far and unbelievably knowledgeable, though can't remember his full name. A truly extraordinary place.

Actually.... I do have a scholarly reason for going there... and its in Leeds (if anyone wants to join the coach party).

Herbert Woodend (1943-2003). Not just the curator but basically the creator of the Pattern Room. By all accounts a character.