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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Hi abadonna,
That is brilliant stuff, thank you. Your searching through the records is very much appreciated.
(I’m very impressive after I gave details of the wrong squadron and airshow!)
I’ll pass the information onto my dad, he will be very pleased to hear about it.
Pilot Officer T G Murphy was a childhood friend of my father and was best man at my parent’s wedding.
Unfortunately, my dad lost touch with him when he transferred to a Vulcan squadron during the height of the Cold War.
I have made various attempts to find out how his career progressed without success.

Thanks again
Richard

A friend of my father was flying a Canberra in 1954 or 55 at the Biggin Hill airshow (I believe) when he suffered a tailplane actuator fault.
Apparently, during a flypast, the aircraft climbed and disappeared from view…shortening his routine somewhat.
He did manage to land the aircraft, with great difficulty. I believe, as a result, Canberras were grounded whilst the fault was investigated.

I would greatly appreciate if anyone have any information on this incident?
(The pilot was T.Murphy and aircraft was probably from 231 OCU Bassingbourn or possibly 101 Squadron Binbrook)

Many thanks
Richard