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20th Century

The Lost Airman – Part Two

14th September 2020 Going Postal 0

At Chelsfield, local folk were well aware that a Hurricane had plunged from the sky above them on that sun-kissed Sunday afternoon of 1 September during an intense and frightening period of activity that shook [more…]

20th Century

The Lost Airman – Part One

7th September 2020 Going Postal 0

Chelsfield Green, a strip of elevated, sloping grassland running alongside Warren Road from Chelsfield Station to Court Road on the fringe of the Village, has become a popular spot for a ration of daily exercise [more…]

20th Century

An early airman’s tragic adventure

15th July 2020 Going Postal 0

Early 1930: It had been a depressing English winter – cold, dark and wet for weeks on end. In West Wickham, a young man who had left Australia five years earlier and settled here in [more…]

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