I went to the same uni as Chadwick. Who knew...
Apparently the two lancasters are doing a couple of displays with XH558 over the next few weeks too. That will be a sight as well.
I remember a few years ago when back in Soton standing in my parents garden on a Sunday afternoon when I head a sound getting louder that could only have been Thumper. Sure enough, she went straight over our house in Swaything. After she has gone, I turned round, and the neighbours over every house in both directions has all come out as well.
Then a couple of years ago I was sat in the park next to the Royal Yacht Club in Cowes on the weekend of the Bournemouth air show when she went past again heading east to west to Bournemouth between the island and Lepe / Calshot. Amazing sight. (XH558 went past on the same route as we boarded the Red Funnel ferry to come back to Soton)
There really is no sound like a Merlin. Imagine what entire squadrons of Lancasters taking off sounded like...
I really hope the CAA give Just Jane flight clearance when her restoration is finished.