has anybody got any photos or knows anybody who as got photos of the big searchlight that use to stand on top of brightside/shiregreen hill,it was there to be used when sheffield was under attack from the germans in the second world war I know that the base was still there a few years ago but I havent been up there for a long time. also has anybody got any photos of the old norton aerodrome in the second world war when the planes use to take off from there do they still use it for training car drivers the ones who are learning to drive can anybody remember when it caught fire in the early sixties and talking of fires does anyone remember when the wood yard on queens road caught fire that was in the sixties the heat that was thrown up it stopped quite a bit of traffic and can anybody remember when one of the old sheffield buses came off the road just below woodseats on its way to heeley and finnished up going through a wall and landing on its side it would be across from that furniture shop near the snickett what goes down to the club at the bottom of woodseats road ! and does anybody know where that B17 bomber came down in endcliffe woods, the pilot had just missed the top of the houses at endcliffe and it finnished up going belly first on the playing field to land some where in the wood any help on the above would be much appreciated.

Kev.

If you do a search on here, I am sure that you will find a thread relating to these subjects.

I know that in the year since I joined, that almost all of your questions here were covered in different threads.

I definitely remember that we had a discussion about Norton "aerodrome" a few months ago.

You might find the information you are looking for on that thread.

(If I remember correctly, someone said that it was not a true aerodrome, having planes etc based there, but that it was a training place, and had barrage balloons sited there)

Also, I remember very well when the Arnold Laver Wood-yard went up in smoke, it'd be about 1967, 0r 8 at the latest, I think. I remember watching the thick pall of black smoke as it went up. I lived on Gleadless valley at the time, and we could see it from there. Again, it is mentioned in another thread.

The bomber, the B17 that came down in Endcliffe Park, was called the "mi amigo".

If you go down the path at the back of the cafe in "Enks Park", you will find what looks like a boulder, set back, and a little "Up" from the path, with a memorial plaque on it .
There are a group of follks who do a memorial service (I think, every August) and they lay a wreath in memory. IIRC, all souls on board were lost.

There is a thread on here (again, I am not sure exactly where it is, but a search will hopefully turn up the information for you)

Hope this is of help to you?

(regarding the searchlight @ Brightside.. sorry can't help you on that, it's the same with the bus that went through the wall on Woodseats Bottom.. I can only vaguely recall it happening, though I can't recall it being mentioned on here)

PT