Hurrifan, despite the ‘Peak District’ title of the web sites in my post, there are some useful items regarding Yorkshire crash sites on both of the web pages.

Chris

Hi chaps,

As this is Stirling thread, I thought I’d post a query. Up until a few years ago, large amounts of Stirling III LJ628, 1654 HCU, Wiglsey, were to be found on Uppper Commons, Margery Hill, in the northern Peak District (actually the dip slope, which runs roughly back towards Sheffield, to the east of the Derwent Valley). There were large fragments of the airframe which were, IIRC, recovered several years along with other sections of another high ground Stirling, by the RAF(?) as a restoration project(?).

It was just glancing at this thread which reminded me of it and I wondered if anyone might have any ideas as to where it eventually wound up? I may have some of these details skewed (apart from ‘682’s identity but I’m sure I’ll be told!) so I don’t want to start any rumours.

LJ628 was lost on 21/06/44 – all of the crew survived.

Cheers,

Chris

Whilst conducting a belated ‘spring clean’ of Dam Buster Towers, ‘er indoors found a video buried in all the clutter, and when we put it in the VCR to see what was on it, it turned out to be ‘Over Here’ with Martin Clunes et al. I did’nt recall ever watching it at the time, so me & mrs Dam Buster sat down with a large bottle of wine and a bag of crisps to watch it. It was quite enjoyable in a quirky sort of way, with a bit of a sudden ending we thought. Well aware of some of the aircraft used in the programme, (Sally B, MH434 etc, ) but it left us both with a couple of questions I wonder if our well informed forumites could answer, so, apologies if all this has been covered before but here goes…

a) Does anyone know ehich village was used in the opening shots,

b) Which airfield was used as ‘RAF Lytchmere’? It looked spookily likie ex RAF BINBROOK, and given that ‘Sally B’ still looked to be in her ‘Memphis Belle’ scheme, this might fit in

c) Was the Bf 109 the Hans Ditte one (re-engined Buchon) and whatever happened to that aircraft?

d) Given the odd ending, was there only 1 programme, or have I missed any others? :confused:

Again apologies if this has been covered before, and many thanks in advance for any help you may be able to give,

Regards
Keith 🙂

DB – can’t help with aircraft at the moment as I haven’t seen it myself in several years, although it look sas though others are able to do that in a more qualified manner than me! I’m doing the same as yourself and sorting through a whole load of stuff (including vids). With regars to ‘Over Here’, it was in three, one hour episodes, first broadcast on a Sunday evening. If anyone else has a copy to hand, they’ll be able to tell you better – am still looking for mine! However, this might explain why your’s seems to have an ‘odd’ ending. It SHOULD wilnd up with Timothy West and Prunella Scales back in the village (as it started), and West’s character is surrounded by the ‘ghosts’ of many of the characters from his past, which I always found very moving, really. Not much help I know but it certainly filled a three hour tape.

Cheers,

Chris

Thanks, 1 Group.

Didn’t take a camera yesterday; do you have anymore that you could share?

Thanks.
Mark

I didn’t manage to go so I have to rely on these as well. You can see the full collection on our joint web site Noel and Chris’ Aviation Pages. There’s an absolutle belter of the Halifax on there!

Chris

PS. Sorry if I jumped in Noel! C.

Thanks for the info. Can you help with any of the other aircraft?

Bottom right image is Wellington Mk.II W5376/PH-V, 12 Sqn., Binbrook sometime between 1941-42. Just under the ‘V’ symbol the aircraft’s letter is repeated in morse (…- or ‘dot dot dot dash’) The aircraft went through a succession of units after serving with 12 Sqn: Overseas Aircraft Preparation Unit; 311 Ferry Training Unit; 3 Overseas Aircraft Delivery Unit and finally 104 Sqn (whose codes were EP. I can’t find the aircraft letter at the moment) who were at the time based at Kairouan Cheria, Tunisia. The aircraft was lost on a raid to Panellaria on the 11th June, 1943.

Chris

Ruhr Valley Express

The “Ruhr Vally Express” is familiar to me. Is anyone able to determine the types of aircraft the art work is attached to?

“Ruhr Valley Expres” is Halifax B.II W7710/LQ-R of 405 (Vancouver) Sqn. RCAF, RAF Topcliffe, Yorkshire, 1942. In front of the train is a guy running along and the word ballon reads “Hey, Georing, R-Robert is here again!”. The aircraft was lost on 2nd October, 1942 on a raid to Flensburg with the loss of all on board (Lost Bombers )

Chris

I’ll keep this thread going for weeks – as I go through listing my album collection (about 1200 of ’em) :diablo:

First on my list is an obscure group called Bethnall – their album “Crash Landing” (1978) had a small image of a Dan Air Comet 4 on the front in ‘damaged’ condition.

Like john tixc I can’t reproduce the image here :confused:

Roger Smith.

Roger, I managed to find the sleeve after a bit of a trawl (well, an image large enough to post and see!). You’re right though, it is a VERY small image of a Comet!

Chris