Norfolk and Suffolk aviation memorials

Moggy

The book you mention is long out of print but I managed to track down a copy and photocopy it, along with the Suffolk Memorials book, also by Huby Fairhead.

Are there any more memorials that are new (dedicated in the past 15 years) or little known ones, plaques, benches etc.

Thanks again for everyones help

Richard

This is one I took today at Mautby Church in Norfolk.

Joe

Thanks for posting the Docking photo, I saw this memorial earlier this year and photographed it then, it was raining at the time so I need to go back there!
www.airfields.fotopic.net/docking

Auster Fan

Thanks for the info on the Gorleston ASR Memorial, it is one I am going to visit in the next week or so, when the sun is out! Some photos of it here;
http://airfieldinformationexchange.freeforums.org/gorleston-asr-memorial-t1066.html

This is the Memorial at Brisley

www.airfields.fotopic.net/brisley

I’m not sure if this qualifies in the category you’re looking at, but there is a memorial to the RAF Search and Rescue craft they were stationed in Great Yarmouth during the Second World War. I posted a thread just over a year ago about it (see below).

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=41676

Relatively new Memorial to Docking Airfield.

It was very overcast but I got a couple of reasonable photos!

I dont know what the weather was like on your visit but this is a photo I took at 10.45 on Rememberance Sunday.

Andy

Andy

Yes thats the one. An interesting story to it, info can be found here;
http://www.salthousehistory.co.uk/radar.html

Hi REF

Where is the memorial on Salthouse heath ? I have seen the base of the Radar mast with the Poppies on it for the crew of LM 720. Is that the one ?

Thanks

Andy

Moggy

The first NGR above comes up as in the middle of the sea of the coast of Ipswich!
http://www.geograph.org.uk/browse.php?gridref=TM334340&setref=Show+%3E&gridsquare=TM&eastings=31&northings=35

Do you know any more about the Memorial at Edingthorpe?

I have it as TM334340 whilst Edingthorpe is given as TG313319

Moggy

I took a ride out yesterday and found the memorial at Blakeney, thank you for help with that one.

The memorials I photographed yesterday are as follows;

Swanton Morley
Bawdeswell
Brisley
Briston
Blakeney
Salthouse Heath
Upper Sheringham
Neatishead
Old Catton
2nd Air Memorial Library, Norwich

I spent an hour trying to find the memorial at Bacton, to the crew of a Hudson that crashed near Lowlands Farm, does enyone know where it is as I’d like to photograph it and couldn’t find it yesterday! I was also told of a memorial at Edingthorpe, could this be the same one or is it something different?

The memorials listed above will be on my website very soon.

Thanks again

John

do you have an NGR for the one at Blakeney, I didn’t know of it and was planning to head up to the North Norfolk coast in November sometime (yes I know it’ll be cold!!!)

Thanks again for the info, keep it coming!

It’s easy to find, go into the National Trust car park (Carnser)and follow the path out and up the side of the creek and you will see it just to the water side of the path. It’s only a couple of hundred yards at the most.

John

Thanks Moggy!

TG027441

🙂

John

do you have an NGR for the one at Blakeney, I didn’t know of it and was planning to head up to the North Norfolk coast in November sometime (yes I know it’ll be cold!!!)

Thanks again for the info, keep it coming!

I was just relying on memory, it’s 264.

John

Maybe this website can help you further: http://www.ukniwm.org.uk/server/show/nav.22

According to Mr Fairhead’s fine tome, Flt Lt Cooke DFC and his Air Gunner Cpl Albert Lippet DFM died in Defiant L6975 off Dunkirk. Though he credits them as belonging to 264 Sqd

Moggy

The Cooke Post

Have you found this one at Blakeney, it’s one of a pair of starting posts for dinghy races. He was a Defiant pilot, lost off Dunkirk. 263 Sqn.

John