Here is my thing in front of a thing. The Linear has a high degree of thinginess, summoning up comments from passers by such as "What is that thing?"
It is definitely out thinged this time by an MOT station with a Hawker/BaE Harrier as a gate guardian. It has a forlorn air, as if it knows that its glory days are long over, doomed to spend its time behind bars being gawped at by passers by and ironically crapped on by pigeons as if to
say, well we can still fly! It is well screened from other angles, so not possible to read its airfame number. A bit of a search reveals that it is ZE691,
a Sea Harrier, which has been here since at least 2008.