[QUOTE=adrian_gray;1682401]Hindenburg,

I’m afraid I can’t add a huge amount to what I said above – One Hurricane, One Raid is in Essex, and I’m not. Your best bet is to hit the local library (before it is shut down…) and get a copy of Vol 1 of The Blitz Then and Now, I think, or One Hurricane (assuming I’m right about Debden being in it, of course).

LW206/adrian gray,

No need to rush to the library, One Hurricane One Raid covers the raid of Saturday 31 Aug 40, with only passing references to 26 Aug.
Regarding items ‘lying around’ for years in the local area, in the mid 80s one of the ‘used’ parachutes from that raid was still to be seen in a trunk in the local hospital where it had been put in 1940 – since transferred to the more appropriate location of the local museum.