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William Gilbert (Bill) Astill OAM, 11/11/1925-2/5/2021
WELL-known Sale resident William (Bill) Astill died on May 2, 2021, aged 95.
He connected with numerous people over those years and only a few years ago, lamented that if you live long enough, all your friends have gone.
Over the years, many traumas or tragedies have occurred and Bill’s character was such, that he could always be relied on to ‘put it in your pocket and get on with life’.
He loved life and had a great sense of humour, which endeared him to many, and that sense of humour remained with him to the end.
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Denis Robinson Column: Special memories of my big assignment at Rolls-Royce
I have a very special memory of the Rolls-Royce site in Hucknall, which has been bought by ITP Aero to end more than 80 years of the company s presence in the town.
Friday, 21st May 2021, 5:00 pm
It was in the mid-1950s, just a couple of years after I had started work as a cub reporter with the Dispatch, that I was given by far my biggest assignment up to that time.
This was to report on development at Hucknall of the Flying Bedstead, the strange-looking contraption which made history as the first aircraft in the world to make a vertical ascent and landing, powered solely by two Nene engines. This paved the way for the Harrier jump jet.