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Sunday, January 06 2013, 6:01PM
“I remember the earthquake - I was writing a school exam at the time. I can't remember a plane crash though.”
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Tuesday, January 08 2013, 12:27PM
“I remember one in the 50's on St Albans Road in Bulwell but have searched the web extensively and can't find any mention of one in Stapleford”
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Tuesday, January 08 2013, 6:20PM
“Earthquakes are felt over a wide area, so the one in Bulwell would have been felt in other areas too.”
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Friday, January 11 2013, 10:55AM
“Sorry - missed out the important words - the plane crash was in Bulwell.”
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Saturday, March 02 2013, 12:21AM
“There was also an air crash over Colwick in the late 1950's. Two RAF jet Provost training aircraft collided and bits rained down over Colwick. Both trainee pilots and instructors died, I believe a woman died either in the Coop in Carlton or was it in the Spray & Burgess factory in Colwick, hit by debris. I was then in St Johns Junior school in Vale Road Colwick. The crash happened during a playtime break and we watched it happened. An engine from one of the aircraft landed between two of the tall terraced houses on Vale Road.
Piat (formerly known as Voysher)” -
Saturday, April 06 2013, 3:45PM
“hi i lived on colwick vale at the time,(number91) and was at school in the playground at the time.the woman that was killed worked at spray & burgess and was in there canteen when a pice of debris came through the roof and hit her. the engine landed in the side garden of the house that the brunswicks lived at (oppersite end to where i lived). part of the wreckage landed on the allotments at the end of our garden where they found a body”
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“Hi, I grew up in Nottingham during the 1950s & 60s migrating to Australia in 1967. We lived around the St Ann's well Rd area & moved out to Stapleford when I was 6. I remember living in a street behind a pub as we used to watch the horse & dray deliver barrels, I also recall an earthquake where a chimney fell off of one of the houses in the street, but also have a very vivid childhood memory of an air crash, with bits of plane scattered across a main st with shops & businesses, but I can't find any reference to such an event on the internet, its a bit of a mystery for me. I'm wondering if anyone remembers such an thing? I was born in 1952, so I'm guessing it would have been around 1954 - 57.
Thanks
Bob.”