Three pics of my dad’s cousin Harold Mottershead, who was lost at sea as a bomber observer/navigator in 1943 on a night search mission he volunteered for. Like so many othes he was young when he died, and had grown up in Marton and attended the local grammar school (my mum says Baines school near Stanley Park?)  

by Colin Ainsworth

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War-time cinema experience

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A Bloomfield resident remembers an amazing incident when she was a child during the Second World War, when a plane nearly crashed into her house.

Read some of the memories of Betty Aspinall, from the 1940s to the present.  The stories were collected at a reminiscence session in August 2008, and written down by another member of the reminiscence group.