Great film especially Helen Mirren’s armour……ahem. Its what sparked my interest in medieval history. Thanks Ian, yep Keep it Uryens catches a few people out. But if you know it came in over your house, I suspect you have already looked.ĭo please let me know how you get on, be good to add a photo here or a link to your site if you add it there for anyone else searching for it. We used old photos from newspapers to help pinpoint the location of a Luftwaffe crash site on the east coast of Yorkshire last year. While it probably won’t specify the farm, there may well be a photo of the crash site which will help you find the spot. Sucking eggs comment here, but have you been to the local library? Given the exact date, you could look at the local newspaper on microfilm for the days after 15/08/40. Let me know if there’s anything you need from Parker’s book, I will have a look at another couple of resources but it does sound like you have the story of S9+AB sewn up apart from the location? Most farmers are very helpful, I find knocking on doors particularly useful, people often have photos or the odd chunk of debris and are more than willing to talk about it, even if they don’t recall it themselves, the story is often passed down. Would love to spend some time in Kent and Sussex again, so much if interest down there for middle-aged anoraks like me. When I last walked that stretch of path I had little knowledge of them or even their age. Re sound mirrors, I first saw them on the coast path around Dover and Folkestone, there’s loads of stuff there too. Main thing I know of Croydon was the KLM air disaster. I didn’t know the attack on Croydon was that particular event which turned the RAF to civilian targets and in turn took the Luftwaffe away from the air bases. Still watch the scores on tv, still hear myself saying, “We could make the play-offs” every time we win a game… But got fed up with travelling all the way to Leyton Orient on a Tuesday night in Deecember for an LDV vans trophy game only to get beat 4 nil but that’s football. Thanks Simon, I had a look at your site, stared at the word KEEPITURYENS for a few seconds before realising it was Excalibur! And then I saw a reference to Bury FC I used to follow Bury home and away. But I have a keen interest in both places! I also am hoping to see the Sound Mirrors on the Sussex coast at some time which I thought were unique until I came across your photo’s. A couple of years ago I went back for a flying visit and couldn’t recognise any of it. What’s just as strangely coincidental looking at your website is that I was born in Bury and have also been to Berlin before the Wall came down where I took lots of photo’s of Die Mauer, Checkpoint Charlie and had a great time with my Dad goon baiting the East Germans in their towers. There is a strange symmetry with some of this story as I also lived in Croydon before moving here. Apparently it already on fire and on impact it cartwheeled so a real mess and not much left after the fire was put out. Having read what I could from the books I have I am pretty sure I know the trajectory as the 110 had to pull up over the church before flying over the high street in front of my house (which incidentally was the Home Guard HQ/Office during the war) and the pub before hitting the ground.
Quite a few bits and pieces of chewed up metal were sold on a few auction sites a few years ago claiming to be relics from this crash. But it was also the catalyst to the Germans switching priorities to London from the airfields which probably led to them eventually giving up on Sealion. Hi Ian, yes it was a black day for the Luftwaffe and the civilian population.
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