I need a wide-angle lens !
This is Short Sunderland MR Mk 5 - a flying boat patrol bomber, serving throughout WW2 - apparently nicknamed Flying Porcupine because of the large quantity of armaments carried.
749 of them were built between 1938 and 1946, with seven surviving - and one of those flew across the Atlantic to America in 1993, it remains in airworthy condition, but hasn't flown since 1996.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Sunderland
When my OH was here, with his father, quite a few years ago, this poor beastie was outside and looking worse for the weather, so we were pleased to find it painted & inside a building.
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