Plane Crash in Horden/Easington?

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DaveH said:
My dad said there was a crashed plane for years after the war in one of the fields around houghton. He used to play in it as a kid. I assume they had removed any bodies and munitions.
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Might be the same one that my grandad talked about.

I could just imagine the downed airmen being surrounded by pitch fork wielding woollybacks.

Pensher woolies eat jormans.

Another decent document - NE defences in WW2.

http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/wwwfileroot/legacy/regen/locallist/tyne_and_wear_defence_sites.pdf
 


i remember this well , i was watching my gran peg out me grandas jeans as it flew overhead . it scared me that much i ducked down and noticed a rabbit lying at the end of the garden caught in 1 of me grandas snares , i walked over to it and picked it up ,to find a pound of fresh mushrooms had grown under it . and me gran found a fiver in his back jeans pocket.
 
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Spug said:
Was talking to an old geezer I know a few month back that when he was a kid I'd guess just after the war a British fighter plane went down and landed in Grants houses and managed to hit a car killing the pilot and a woman and man in the car.

Now this fella I have always enjoyed his stories but one I can't believe there will have been hardly any motors around back then and I have looked online and can't see anything at all about it unless it was hushed up. The fella in question went and fought in Aden and post war Germany so I'd be amazed if he is winding me up.

Anyone shed any light on this?
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I was told a few local war stories as a kid but never heard of that. Closest I can come to that was during the war when a light German bomber strafted Easington and Grants to get rid of ammo (and setting fire to the CofE church opposite the miners' amd killing two local lads on their way to fight the war) eventually being shot down over the sea by ack ack fire.
 
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genericus said:
theres one that crashed near me, near Venerable bede school in Ryhope, basically on the golf course some time during WW2
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Is it owt to do with this fella? The pilot was the only Halifax Bomber pilot awarded a VC in the war.

The plane had come from the Air Base at a place called Burn which is the next village along the A19 from where I live near Selby. Its home to a Gliding Club now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Joe_Barton
 
my dad has always claimed one crash landed on a field behind his house in seaham it must have been around 1944-1945 because he was born in 1940 and he remembers it. but ive never found anything on it.

ill have a look at the links provided.
 
JonMc said:
I was told a few local war stories as a kid but never heard of that. Closest I can come to that was during the war when a light German bomber strafted Easington and Grants to get rid of ammo (and setting fire to the CofE church opposite the miners' amd killing two local lads on their way to fight the war) eventually being shot down over the sea by ack ack fire.
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Is that the one that put the rounds into the trust wall?

They took out my father in laws parents window when they lived down the c streets.

steveshelley said:
my dad has always claimed one crash landed on a field behind his house in seaham it must have been around 1944-1945 because he was born in 1940 and he remembers it. but ive never found anything on it.

ill have a look at the links provided.
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Wonder if they hushed these things up when it was one of our own?
 
Spug said:
Is that the one that put the rounds into the trust wall?

They took out my father in laws parents window when they lived down the c streets.



Wonder if they hushed these things up when it was one of our own?
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me dad has always said it was german, ive never researched it so i would like to find out if its true
 
Spug said:
Is that the one that put the rounds into the trust wall?
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Aye. The poor lads were stood there at the bus stop waiting to travel. Probablys all full of excitement and trepadation but never got out of the colliery.
 
I seem to remember reading a thread on here a few years ago similar, that someone had heard a plane had crashed around that area?
 
There was plane crash in Hart I think just after the war
 
Spug said:
Was talking to an old geezer I know a few month back that when he was a kid I'd guess just after the war a British fighter plane went down and landed in Grants houses and managed to hit a car killing the pilot and a woman and man in the car.

Now this fella I have always enjoyed his stories but one I can't believe there will have been hardly any motors around back then and I have looked online and can't see anything at all about it unless it was hushed up. The fella in question went and fought in Aden and post war Germany so I'd be amazed if he is winding me up.

Anyone shed any light on this?
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Pretty sure that was Emmerdale mate.
 
The golf course incident was a Twin Meteor on 25 September 1951, the aircraft crashed on South Moor Golf Course.
 
JonMc said:
Aye. The poor lads were stood there at the bus stop waiting to travel. Probablys all full of excitement and trepadation but never got out of the colliery.
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Aye was a sad tale

steveshelley said:
me dad has always said it was german, ive never researched it so i would like to find out if its true
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For some reason I have it in my mind he said one of ours but I could be wrong.
 
There was definitely one came down and crashed on castle Eden golf course on the 13th hole killing the Pilot.
The family and the golf course put a wreath out where it went down on remembrance day every year.
 
The Times - Wednesday Sept 26 1951

Pilot Officer M. F. Rogers of Northwood, Middlesex was killed yesterday when a jet Meteor fighter aircraft he was flying crashed on South Moor golf course, near Stanley County Durham"
 
This Spug best thread today, you must admit hes getting better
 
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