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Subject: Re: Sabre Jet Crash Author: ALAN BLACKMORE [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 14:06:06 05/21/03 Wed In reply to: 's message, "Sabre Jet Crash" on 14:00:55 05/03/03 Sat >Does anyone remember the Sabre Jet crashing on Speke >Boulevard back in 54-55. How about the fair which >used to arrive every year at the bottom of Western >Avenue. Does anyone remember the Ford factory being >built. Yes I remember it well .It belonged to a CANADIAN squadron based at SPEKE[ Super Sabres]. It careered off the end of the runway,crossed the carriageway and ended up in the field opposite in SPEKE HALL AVENUE.. If you can remember the old dis-used lane where the Gypsies used to camp ..well it was about sixty yards to the right of the lane. The field was later turned into a huge sports field...later on to be down-sized. I remember the field being packed when the annual air displays took place on/over the airfield. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> Subject: Re: Sabre Jet Crash Author: Tom [Edit] Date Posted: 14:35:59 05/22/03 Thu Alan.....you were right on the button......the crash happened right where you said it did and the pilot walked away back to the Speke airfield. Do you remember the fair which used to visit every year at the bottom of Western Avenue on the back field there. I remember sitting with the gypsies'kids on that dis-used country lane, at the back of Dymchurch prefabs. I sampled my first taste of Hedgehog on their campfires. That's what they used to eat quite often, when their dogs used to find them. The hogs were rolled in clay, after being killed, and then tossed onto the fire whole. The clay baked hard and when it cooled down, the whole thing was broken open and the skin peeled off with the clay pot attached. I remember the meat was good and very lean. That was 55 years ago and of course Hedgehogs are now protected like most of the other British flora and fauna. Do you remember the Ford factory being built? It is now the Jaguar Plant. I remember the huge dredgers emptying the many ponds that were on that site. The kids of the area helped themselves to the many hundreds of roach and other fish that were emptied onto the fields by the machinery. It was a shame to lose those ponds because that's where all the local kids fished. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Sabre Jet Crash Author: Brian Reynolds [Edit] Date Posted: 05:49:29 07/29/03 Tue >The Sabre Jet crashed and finished in the Old Lane near the pond just off Speke Hall Avenue. It was earlier than 1954/55 - I would guess 1949/50. There was also a Viscount crash onto the Mothaks factory in the early 1950's. At one of the Speke Airshows a famous Frenchman, known as The Birdman, died when his parachute failed to open and he crashed into a field near Hunts Cross. He was supposed to glide using wooden wings to land at the airport but I think they were damaged as he left the plane. It happened on a Bank Holiday about 1956. Hello to anyone who may remember me. Brian Reynolds [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Sabre Jet Crash Author: Tom [Edit] Date Posted: 06:51:06 08/05/03 Tue Hello Brian..I remember you very well from Mr Dunns class at Stocktonwood School..Hope you are keeping fine ....you are right about the Birdman and the airshow ....DEM WERE THE DAYS........ [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Sabre Jet Crash Author: Brian Reynolds [Edit] Date Posted: 13:24:04 08/05/03 Tue >Hello Brian..I remember you very well from Mr Dunns >class at Stocktonwood School..Hope you are keeping >fine ....you are right about the Birdman and the >airshow ....DEM WERE THE DAYS........ Good to hear from you Tom - I think you are now in Ontario? Tomorrow I am going to Speke and will be in Liverpool for 3/4 days seeing some old school friends and relatives. I will meet Ray Davies (School Way) in the morning at the old airport terminal - now Marriott Hotel. Speke never had one of them in the old days. Will send you some news when I return. Best regards Brian [ Post a Reply to This Message ]