Memories of Fulwood Cottage Homes

[brian1941]

HI FLYER, INFO ON ENDCLIFFE PARK PLANE CRASH FEBRUARY 22end 1944.

A BIT OF THE STORY GOES AS.

THERE HAD BEEN A LIGHT COVERING OF SNOW AND SOME KIDS HAD MADE A ICY SLIDE

ACROSS THE RD AT ENDCLIFFE PARK WHERE THEY`D PLAYED TILL DUSK FELL,

THEY BECAME AWARE OF THE AIRCRAFT APPROACHING AND WAS IN DEFINITE TROUBLE.

THE ENGINES WERE THROBBING AND SPLUTTERING AND EVENTUALLY THE CRIPPLE

AIRCRAFT PASSED DIRECTLY OVER THE ROOFTOPS.

THE PLANE WAS TURNING IN A WIDE CIRCLE AND HEADING UP ECCLESALL RD, ONE OF THE BOYS PLAYING ON THE SLIDE SAID IT WAS AN B40 BOMBER.

AFTER 10 MINUTES HAD PASSED CIRCLE`ING THE PLANE CRASHED IN ENDCLIFFE PARK

WOODS AND WAS ON FIRE, A SMALL CROWD OF PEOPLE HAD GATHERED AND WERE

MILLING AROUND.

A POLICE CONSTABLE RAN IN FRONT OF THE CROWD SHOUTING TO STAND BACK AS

THERE MAY BE BOMBS ON BOARD, IT WAS SAID THE PILOT WAS TRYING TO LAND THE

PLANE ON THE PLAYING FIELD IN THE PARK BUT SPOTTED BOYS KICKING A BALL ABOUT

ON THE SNOW COVERED GRASS.

TWO YOUNG BOYS WHO WAS AT THE SCENE AT THE TIME OF THE CRASH WENT TO

HELP BUT WAS HELD BACK ,THERE WAS A SPILT FUSELAGE AND ONE OF THE CREW WAS

STRUGGLING TO GET OUT.

HIS FLYING SUIT WAS ALL HOOKED UP IN THE TWISTED METAL AND THE FLAMES WERE

BELCHING AROUND THE CREW MEMBER, THE POOR AIRMEN FELL BACK INSIDE THE

FUSELAGE TO BE CONSUMED BY THE INFERNO.

B40 BOMBER-- MI AMIGO--------

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HOPE THE STORY WAS OF SOME HELP FLYER.

Edited August 16, 2010 by brian1941
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[wilfred]

Would love to here from anyone from FCH who went to Wellesley Nautical School,blyth, I know my father did and Rex ,but would love to here from more

I run the WNS forum

 

Hi Misty I was in fch till I went to the wellesley I left the school in 1950 to join the mn my name is wilfred unwin

[flyer]

Hi Misty I was in fch till I went to the wellesley I left the school in 1950 to join the mn my name is wilfred unwin

Hi wilf what happan to "Munne"did u kill him off:D:D

[crazy1955]

after reading all your storys of fch u have helped me know my father a bit better and why he was like he was his name was alfred thomas known has alf

[flyer]

after reading all your storys of fch u have helped me know my father a bit better and why he was like he was his name was alfred thomas known has alf

Glad to be of some help I know it changed myself & my brothers for life and many more ,however i also know that in some inmates view they seem think there stay as positive maybe it was just the time and what short of house mother you land up with(war time I've only heard of ONE good one M Lindsey #6) I'm 77 i left at 11 and can still get upset, maybe by the time i reach 143 i will forget:(:(

[crazy1955]

u might have known my dad and his brothers he would have been 77 this year and he was placed in the home when he was 5 dont know how old he was when he came out only know he was old enough to go to work when his mother took him out please if anyone can remember him and his brothers get in touch i am doing the family tree but cant find alot about my dads family his name was Alf thomas

[crazy1955]

Hi Dawnanne the Thomases you are talking about could be my dad and his brothers their names are Alfred known as Alf Gordon Graham and Brian i really hope so i think they were put in there around this time i know my dad was only 5 but dont know anything else because my dad never talked about it

[Dawnanne]

Hi

Yes you are right. My dad was a baby when he was taken into the home. Not sure if dad is the only one left. Gordon died in 1995, Brian has died. June was the sister but we never had contact with her or your dad.

Edited July 2, 2013 by Dawnanne

[flyer]

u might have known my dad and his brothers he would have been 77 this year and he was placed in the home when he was 5 dont know how old he was when he came out only know he was old enough to go to work when his mother took him out please if anyone can remember him and his brothers get in touch i am doing the family tree but cant find alot about my dads family his name was Alf thomas

 

only remember one that came in #2 at 5yr old that was one of the Lindsey brothers ,but seem your dad would have been my age so very possible we could have gone to school together in 39-43ish that was the little village school in Fullwood this school closed down around 43 I went to Greystones seem to remember Pamona?? being the other one

[crazy1955]

thank u for replying but i got some good news last night i was reading further on in this site whe i came across some more storys on this home and i found someone who was looking for my dads family and got in touch it turns out she was my uncle daughter why the dont have all these storys all together i will never know but it has open my eyes to the suffering both u and my dad must have gone through it had made me understandmy dad more