can anyone remember Middlesborough late 80s early 90s

South Bank Dornier

Johnnie,
Any chance of a photo of the maker’s plate? I found one on site just before the ‘dig’ got underway. It was attached to a largish piece of anodised metal. I handed it to S/Ldr Costello at the site on the understanding that I would get in back when the recovery was completed – but that was the end of it. I have written the story (see www.billnorman.co.uk); it would be nice to have a pictutre of the plate.
My email is [email]william.norman13@ntlworld.com[/email] if you would care to send an electronic copy.

Bill Norman

Didn`t all the rest of the wreckage from this end up near the fire dump at RAF Wyton ?

I also have a few items from this. I was about 15 when it recovered, and visited the site with my father (on a very cold wet day). A few years later I was talking to the chaps
from the RAF (I’m sure they were RAF rather than army) who had carried out the work and they gave me a box it stuff from it including engine valves, the pilots armour plating,
a plate with the work number on, and various other bits and bobs.

If I get a chance I’ll post some bits on here.

Johnnie

After the Do217 was recovered it was put on display for a short while at Kirkleatham museum. I took plenty of photo`s, also have quite a few nice items from it.

I bought South bank dornier for £3.95 the other month.

great price and read.

Yes the boy was born in 1972 and was supposed to have a good working knowledge of drawing aircraft cockpits and german uniform insigina.

He was stabbed to death and buried in 1995, the german pilots remains were found and buried in 1997. The boys parents believed they had buried their son twice.

Totally off the top of my head but might this not have been (a Dornier I think) the one which was found near a railway line when they were laying a new one?

Seem to recall a newspaper article running the story that some young boy who died near there crash site, just before it was rediscovered, could recall details of the plane, its mission and its crew! His parents believed that he had flewn this very plane in a previous life :eek::D

I have this paper article 2001 feb Daily mirror Do 17 1942 hit Baloon cable
yes there was a kid murdered there on that spot and was said to look like him the german pilot.ill dig it out.weird…….:eek:
terry

South Bank Dornier

Anyone seeking the full story of the Do217 crash might find www.billnorman.co.uk worth a visit. I can supply direct: simply email me(address on the web page).
Bill Norman

Scott,

The book “South Bank Dornier: South Bank, Cleveland 15 January 1942” , by Bill Norman has the full story ….

On 27 November 1997, a group of building workers clearing land for redevelopment at South Bank, Cleveland, unearthed the remains of a Second World War Dornier Do217 bomber of the German Luftwaffe unit Kampfgeschwader 2 (KG2). The aircraft had crashed there in January 1942, minutes after being hit by gunfire from a merchant ship anchored off Hartlepool and seconds after colliding with the cable of a barrage balloon flying high over the river Tees. The blazing bomber plummeted on to the railway sidings of a local steelworks, where it made a crater some twelve feet deep. At that time, the sidings were being used for essential war work and so, after the charred bodies of three of the four-man crew had been recovered, most of the wreckage was bulldozed into the crater and the track was re-laid. The body of the fourth member of the crew was not found – until 1997. This book tells the full story of this German bomber’s operation over the Tees on 15 January 1942 before it collided with the barrage balloon. It also describes the chance `rediscovery’ of the wreckage and its occupant in 1997 and the latter’s subsequent interment in a Teesside cemetery during a ceremony attended by the German Consul-General to Great Britain, the German Air Attaché, three local mayors, representatives of twenty-two ex-Servicemen’s associations and some 200 members of the general public.

Cheers
DG

thanks guys, wasnt sure whether it was a Dornier or Heinkell, the location my mate said was just north of middlesborough itself….after you go over the tees river

i wouldnt mind reading more on this if anyone has any ore info

The Dornier is this one

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/william.norman13/newsite/books/dornier.htm

Totally off the top of my head but might this not have been (a Dornier I think) the one which was found near a railway line when they were laying a new one?

Seem to recall a newspaper article running the story that some young boy who died near there crash site, just before it was rediscovered, could recall details of the plane, its mission and its crew! His parents believed that he had flewn this very plane in a previous life :eek::D