Lancaster bomber?

There was a plane approaching that sounded different to anything I could remember hearing before.  A louder, more clapping sound than the normal single propeller planes that fly over.  So, I thought I’d go out and check it out.  Just as I did a plane with four props banked around over head and over the houses into the distance.  By the time I’d run inside to grab my camera it had finished another curving, banking flight over Exmouth, and I finally caught a brief glimpse of it being accompanied by a much smaller single prop fighter, as it flew back in the direction it had come from.

I’m guessing it was a Lancaster bomber, accompanied by a Spitfire.  I just can’t imagine what kind of a noise tens, or maybe hundreds of these planes would have made when taking off.  Or how hearing the sound of their engines, in the distance, after they’d been away for hours must have been so emotive.  Just hearing one flying overhead somehow left me feeling melancholy.