Just an update I have contacted the Abergavenny Chronicle and awaiting a reply, but don’t hold much hope. Anyway fingers crossed.

Hello Ian, thanks for your reply, I grew up at Pandy, and went to school in Abergavenny. I always knew about the Spitfire crash on the  Skirrid and I was looking at an old pamphlet on crashed aircraft in the area the other day and it stirred my interest in L1014 as it was so close to my home.

Also my partner’s father was at King Henry VIII grammar school at the time of the event and he remembered some of his classmates going to see it and talking about it the following day when they came into school. I would be interested to see any photos of it or of the accident. I haven’t contacted the Chronicle yet to see if they did much coverage of it.

Anyone know if they are going to do a book or DVD about the whole flight? Think a book would sell well if it was well illustrated.

Ok, thanks Paul, that makes sense.

Good point lanc35, I hadn’t realised about loosing the private messages till you mentioned it. Yes that is a bugger.