[relight9]

Hi Pat

I,ve PM'd you back, and will be in touch again shortly.

You have noted that you can use some of the detail we have uncovered,is it to be in an article , book etc. as i'm sure there would be quite a bit of interest in it ?

Regards

Paul

[timo]

Aircrashes,
Thanks for your reply. Re my caution against believing the ridiculous folk-myths about German pilots hurled alive into blast furnaces [there are other grisly variations on the tale], please be assured that I wasn't suggesting you were in any way gullible. The stories have circulated for years, appear to be without foundation, and I had a dreadful feeling that they might crop up in the course of your research.

Re my father's claim that a German aircraft crashed on Concord Park; it is possible that he was mistaken and in fact saw the crashed Hampden in April 1941. Is it possible that a German aircraft did crash on Concord Park, but has been omitted from the records? On the surface, it doesn't seem very likely. What is your view here?

[Aircrashes]

Originally posted by timo
Aircrashes,
Thanks for your reply. Re my caution against believing the ridiculous folk-myths about German pilots hurled alive into blast furnaces [there are other grisly variations on the tale], please be assured that I wasn't suggesting you were in any way gullible. The stories have circulated for years, appear to be without foundation, and I had a dreadful feeling that they might crop up in the course of your research.

Re my father's claim that a German aircraft crashed on Concord Park; it is possible that he was mistaken and in fact saw the crashed Hampden in April 1941. Is it possible that a German aircraft did crash on Concord Park, but has been omitted from the records? On the surface, it doesn't seem very likely. What is your view here?

Dear Timo, from the responses so far it doesn't seem likely, two Hampdens and a Tiger Moth seem to complete the Park's bag. And you are quite right, of course, regarding apocryphal stories; but then in the (now) 255 Peakland air crashes I am covering in my books there are substantiated stories enough and to spare. And not a single ghoul or ghost among them! (Well, bar one of the latter ...) Many thanks for your interest, Pat Cunningham

[Aircrashes]

Originally posted by Aircrashes
Researching for 'Peakland Air Crashes' series (Landmark Publishers, Ashbourne) and requesting the locations within Concord Park, Sheffield, where two Hampden bombers came down, one crashing fatally and being destroyed by fire on 19 April 1941, the other making a successful precautionary landing on 8 July1943 before being flown off again some days later. Additionally, any information about a Hawker Audax which crashed on Norton Aerodrome on 7 February 1939, the pilot being unhurt.
Someone might know too, whether anything of the aerodrome site remains to provide a representative photograph. Many thanks in anticipation, Pat Cunningham

Can anyone tell me the date, or even the year, when a Meteor jet aircraft crashed at Todwick. It would probably have been 1955, and would have been reported in the Sheffield Star. Pat Cunningham

[flyer]

is endcliffe park on the road to fulwood almost near a school called greystone? Iattended this school afew hours after an american plane came down

[algy]

Originally posted by flyer
is endcliffe park on the road to fulwood almost near a school called greystone? Iattended this school afew hours after an american plane came down

That's right flyer, the park is the one at Hunter's Bar, not far from Greystones School.

[flyer]

thank you algy I've been in Canada for 50 y'rs so my memory gets quite hazy

[SheShe]

Originally posted by algy
There was a thread about this a little while ago, try doing a search. There was another under the title 'Lodge Moor History' that included the story of an American fighter that crashed on Lodge moor Hospital.

The unforunate only victim of the hospital crash was my Auntie. It was on Dec 10th 1955 and I was 12