Hi,
This might be of interest, my dad was speaking to me recently about this crash, he visited the site as a boy and was wondering if any photos exist of the crashed aircraft?
His memories of the visit are given below:
“An Me109 crash landed in the back gardens of around 4 terraced houses coming to rest just short of an Anderson Air Raid shelter.
They set-up a viewing for the aircraft by allowing people through a house in Robert Street.
A collection bucket marked “Battle of Britain” was left outside the house, after we dropped our pennies in the bucket we were allowed to join the queue
and walked through the house and out into the garden to look at the aircraft.
There was a policeman on guard, he told us to run past the front of the plane and not stop as the guns were still loaded.
The 109 was slightly burnt around the engine, and I believe it had a red shield painted on the cowling?
The aircraft was laying on it’s belly but fully intact, the perspex cockpit was open on it’s hinges.
You could smell the burnt paint and oil.
We ran past the plane into the terraced house opposite and came out in Ann Street.”
Unfortunately a lady, who was in the Anderson Shelter, died as a result of her injuries caused by the fire that broke out around the aircraft.
She was Emily Maxwell, 51 and died two weeks later in St.Nicholas Hospital.
I’ve attached my dad’s drawing of the scene…hopefully someone can dig out a photo of this crash…
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