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BBC News Published image copyrightTerry-Harris.com image captionA fundraising appeal has been launched as part of efforts to restore the craft and put it on display Work is under way to restore a World War Two landing craft unearthed after being buried 30ft (9m) underground for the past 74 years. The Buffalo LVT was brought in to provide flood defences around Crowland, in Lincolnshire, in 1947, but was swept away and sank into a hole. It was recovered last month by a team of volunteers. Daniel Abbott, chairman of the Crowland Buffalo LVT group, said the aim was to restore it and put it on dis...

Team who dug up buried wartime vehicle launch museum appeal The farmer who spearheaded a project to dig up a World War Two vehicle in Crowland has moved closer to his hope of establishing a museum to house it. Saturday, 8th May 2021, 8:00 am A couple of nights before the Buffalo LVT (landing vehicle tracked) was hauled out from 30 feet underground, Daniel Abbott had a dream about seeing it on display in the town. And a fundraising scheme launched this week hopes to bring that to fruition. The gofundme page for Crowland Buffalo Restoration and Museum has an initial target of £2,000.

Lincolnshire Police spit guard stock image | Photo: Steve Smailes for the Lincolnite A man was arrested after allegedly attacking a bus driver in Lincoln before spitting in a police officer’s eye. The incident was included in a social media snapshot of what Lincoln Police’s Argentina team, NC14 response, and Lincoln centre policing team had to deal with on Wednesday, May 5. C group response officers attended the incident on Newark Road and the city council’s CCTV tracked down the suspect. Officers located the individual and placed him under arrest. However, he refused to handover items ...

The Buffalo was carefully manoeuvred onto a trailer before being transported to a nearby restoration site. An amphibious vehicle that was recovered from below ground after 74 years in Crowland has been sent to a restoration site, and the man who found is in search for a museum to house it. The Buffalo LVT (landing vehicle trapped) spent 74 years underground after it sank during an operation to construct a temporary dam. It was one of 30 amphibious vehicles placed in a horseshoe formation to shore up a breached bank, though only sixteen of them remain in place for flood defences to this day.

Incredible effort to rescue tank buried under street near Peterborough after 74 years It had lain buried underground for 74 years – but an extraordinary project to locate and dig up an amphibious tank in Crowland was completed on Thursday. Saturday, 1st May 2021, 8:46 am The Buffalo landing vehicle was one of two which sank after being washed away during an operation to construct a temporary dam following floods in 1947. Crowland farmer Daniel Abbott pored over records and carried out exploratory work over the past three years to confirm that two stricken vehicles were still near the fishin...