Originally Posted by RSyme (Post 718805)

Sorry, think I posted on the wrong thread.

Any pictures would be of use if you know where the originals came from, but ideally I had in mind this pic from the Mk I Presentation Spitfire R7154 - Accrington, Church and Oswaldtwistle thread.



Any idea where the pictures you attached came from?

Originally Posted by RSyme (Post 718805)

Sorry, think I posted on the wrong thread.

Any pictures would be of use if you know where the originals came from, but ideally I had in mind this pic from the Mk I Presentation Spitfire R7154 - Accrington, Church and Oswaldtwistle thread.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/a...itfire-mk1.jpg

Any idea where the pictures you attached came from?

Originally Posted by Doug (Post 718900)

Hi RSyme,

The posted photo was a cropped version of the original downloaded off the web, but I first saw the original in a book by a local Historian by the name of John Goddard. The book is an excellent photo archive of Accrington and the surrounding area; it’s a well worth purchase for anyone remotely interested in Accrington or the East Lancs. area.


The Archive Photographs Series

ACCRINGTON

Author; John Goddard

Originally Posted by RSyme (Post 723104)

Thanks everyone for your help, I have spoken to John who gave me an absolute wealth of information on the spitfire.

Apparently one of the fund raisers held was a football match between the police & fire brigade and the local air raid wardens, the police team won 13-1.

Originally Posted by LeffeBlonde (Post 592280)

I found a post from Doug from 2005 re the above spitfire.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...stle-9979.html

I was searching for details of a wreck I came across on a beach in Scotland recently. I never expected what I found out - fascinating! The Accrington, Church, Oswaldtwistle presentaton Spitfire made a crash landing on the beach at Sandwood Bay in 1942 and I reckon that what I found is the remains of the engine and prop - but would welcome some sort of confirmation.

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The find was all the more fascinating because my wife's family is from Church and her parents may well have contributed to the fund.

I have e-mailed the RAF museum to see if anyone could confirm whether the remains look remotely like a Merlin engine but they have ignored me, I guess they have better things to do.

Any Merlin experts out there?

LeffeBlonde

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 932297)

More details, and photographs of the crash site on here.

coastrider: Roadtrip 2011; Sandwood bay

The pilot of the Spitfire, Sgt. Kilburn.