WW2 crashed aircraft scrap yard Mitcham Surrey

No, definitely the right place

Welcome

Moggy

Welcome to the forum. Nothing wrong about that post.

WW2 crashed aircraft scrap yard Mitcham Surrey

I recall messing about a few times in a fenced off yard full of crashed/scrap WW2 planes with mates near Mitcham Common aged around 12, but I thought it was on or near Redhouse Rd, off the Croydon Road.
I’ve Googled it but to no avail. Does anyone have any further information, other than it was probably the Eyre Smelting Company?
I can also recall American servicemen(?) playing baseball every weekend in what seemed to be an organised semi-pro League at the other end of Mitcham Common around the same time…
My first posting, so sorry if it’s in the wrong place!

Hi all,
just a quick message to say thank you to you all for the information.
I will pass it on.

Rob.

Interesting?

Immediately after the war a large number of German aircraft were flown to Britain for testing and evaluation before suffering in the harsh winter of 1949

Many of the aircraft were overturned in the gales, and others suffered from falling trees, and shortly after this, the wholesale scrapping began… After all useful pieces and large metal areas had been removed, the mortal remains were buried in twenty feet deep holes where they remain to this day. This burial process was quite common with another pit being sited out beyond Brize Norton village in farmland, to accommodate the remains of aircraft that had been stored in dispersed sites.

Ah… http://forum.keypublishing.com/archive/index.php/t-50119.html

Moggy

Sounds Like the Eyre Smelting Company

http://faded-london.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/just-another-brick-in-wall-fire-brick.html

Might be better to ask for this thread to be put on historic – it is about aeroplanes, after all!