Today, 13:08
So, if the truth is to be told, 'tis the remains of DH Albatross:
Fingal
Passenger variant was registered G-AFDL and delivered to Imperial Airways (later BOAC) as Fingal in 1939. Destroyed in a crash landing near Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire, England on 6 October 1940.
The quote, as others may have discerned, is from the Samuel Taylor Coleridge epic "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere" (1798), which, in my warped youth I once recited in my English Lit. class - all 650+ lines of it.
As the myth goes, to shoot an Albatross will bring untold hardship and a lasting curse or death. "Frobisher", Albatross G-ADFI was destroyed on the ground during a German air attack on Whitchurch Airport on 20 December 1940. 'Nuff said...
I'm in the midst of reconstructing a wall in the basement...