I came across something relating to;air crash,Speke airport and Liverpudlians. I do not wish to insult your elderly relative, but minds do play tricks, memory-wise. Then again there are names here that might help you dismiss this report...
[you may have seen this]
http://www.aircrashsites-scotland.co..._greenside.htm
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More general interest;airport, Chester and Liverpool...
http://www.chesterwalls.info/gallery/airport.html
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There is mention of an accident at Speke in 1936. See the paragraph that begins..."In September 1936 G-AEKL, having..." under the "Type history" heading...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival_Mew_Gull
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Last, but not least there is this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...United_Kingdom
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Alas the tales of loss at Speke airport do not stop there...
In Australia there is a small town, the town of Albury. In that small town there is a large shed and in that shed there is a plane, vintage 1934.
Let us go back, dear readers to that heady pre-war stroke post-war stroke time of plenty after the war to end all wars, to the roaring thirties.
1934, to be exact. In that year there was an international air race run between Britain (Croydon) and Australia (Melbourne) my but them were times of heightened excitement.
Picture the scene...flying in darkness somewhere over the vast expanse that is, and was even then, Australia. Lights are sighted on the ground, flashing lights, lights flashing in Morse code...A-L-B-U-R-Y [a quick look at the map tells the pilot that he is a little off course...]
One of the townspeople knowing of the race and hearing a plane circle overhead called on the Mayor, the Mayor called the Electric Generating company and had them flash the street lights off and on...the Mayor also called the radio station and had an emergency message sent out that brought car after car out to line-up along the local race track to show the pilot the best place to land...(phew...gets to you don't it?)
The whole story of the race is to be read on the site I link below. Lets get back now to accidents and Speke airport...
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At the bottom of the page in the first paragraph under the heading, "...and of their pilots?" There is mention of yet another tragic event in the early years of the airport...
http://uiver.ruudbijlsma.nl/1934.htm
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