This is definately the one your mum remembers as this particular aircraft crashed on the playing fields of Bishop’s Stortford College

Well the location is spot on, the Boys College is to the west of the town. (My mum was only 11 at the time, and lived in South London at the time, her interest in aviation dates form the late 50’s in watching the Black Arrows do their stuff on the south coast (she loves the Hunter), plus the fact that her old man started working for DH Props at Hatfield about then). The reason she asked me last night was because she had been to a Trefoil guild (ex-girl guide leaders) meeting at the college, where the librarian of the college gave the Stortford branch at talk on the history of the school, and the fact that a Canberra had crashed within the grounds in 1954. The librarian didn’t know any details, hence the reason my mum asked me. I’ve been asked to pass them on to the school.

Cheers

Richard.