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According to PA and picked up by the shed friendly newspaper the telegraph, a great story about a sheddie who has the fighting spirit of the battle of Britain from his garden shed.

Businessman Martin Phillips is nearly seven years into a real-life jigsaw puzzle – restoring a World War Two Spitfire from thousands of parts.
But the 47-year-old admitted he is still a long way from realising his dream of seeing the aircraft take to the skies again.
“I had a five-year plan, but that is shot – we are looking at another one or two years before it is finished,” he said.
Mr Phillips said he now has every part he needs to rebuild the fighter in a shed outside his country home at Langford, near Exeter, Devon.
“We are making steady progress, but there are lots of engineering problems to overcome,” he said.
His near £1 million project got off the ground when he found the fuselage of the 1944 vintage Spitfire RR232 in Worthing.
Other parts have been gathered from across the globe – including four of the Merlin engines which gave the Spitfires their unmistakable sound.
The fuselage is now surrounded by Spitfire parts – from a £70,000 four bladed propeller, wing skeletons, engine parts, wing cannons, flying instruments, original seats and components down to tiny rivets.
The aircraft – which will eventually be named the City of Exeter – did not see any action, but was involved in test flying at Boscombe Down, Wilts.
The fighter saw service with the South African Air Force, before being scrapped.
One of its wings will be from a Spitfire which crashed near Exeter Airport and lay for decades in a hedge near a pub until it was salvaged.
The final assembly and first flight of the restored aircraft will take place at the airport – a World War Two fighter base.
Mr Phillips was inspired to undertake the restoration when someone gave him a tiny aluminium aircraft rivet – which has been used in the fuselage near the cockpit.

Do you know of any other sheddies who are restoring bits of our history from their sheds?

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