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The Farnborough Air Show Tragedy on Film (1952) | British Pathé

This tragic footage shows the horrifying crash at the Farnborough Air Show in 1952 after pilot, John Derry, broke the sound barrier with the de Havilland DH.110 Sea Vixen. John Derry, the flight observer and 29 spectators were killed during this terrible incident.

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The Farnborough Air Show Tragedy on Film, 1952: Horrifying scenes took place in Hampshire after pilot John Derry, broke his DH. 110 through the sound barrier and flew low over the airfield in front of 120,000 spectators. However, a fault developed in the aircraft and to the horror of the crowd the plane disintegrated in front of them. Debris, including the jet engines, was catapulted towards picnicking families. The pilot, flight observer and 29 spectators were killed.

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History will be made at Preston North End FC on 22 December with the unveiling of a memorial tribute to the Dick, Kerr Ladies football team to commemorate one hundred years since they played their first game at this famous stadium. The wall mounted memorial is the first of its kind in the world and is made from 3.5 tonnes of granite and will stand six metres high by four meters wide.

It was on Christmas Day 1917 that the Dick, Kerr Ladies took on Arundel Coulthards Foundry in a charity football match to raise funds for injured soldiers who had been fighting on the Western Front and convalescing at the nearby Moor Park Military Hospital. A crowd of 10,000 spectators came to watch the match and £600 was raised for the soldiers. (Almost £50k in 2017)

The team went from strength to strength and soon became recognised as the best in the country. In 1920 they played the first ladies International at Deepdale against a French team from Paris in front of 25,000 spectators, a record crowd for the ground at that time. Boxing Day 1920 saw them make history playing in front of 53,000 spectators at Goodison Park, Everton and with between 10,000 and 14,000 people unable to get in to the ground, this was a huge landmark for the ladies game.

In spite of an FA ban on women’s football in 1921, the Dick, Kerr Ladies continued to play against all the odds until 1965 and during that time they played 833 games of football, won 759, drew 46 and lost only 28 games. They raised in the region of £180,000 for charity, but today that would be worth in excess of £10 million.

A dedicated team of volunteers have worked hard to ensure that it has been an incredible centenary year for the team. Having already been honoured with the first Blue Plaque in the world for women’s football attached to the factory in Preston where they were formed, a Centenary Dinner was held at Preston North End in July and the first National Women’s Walking Football Tournament, the Dick, Kerr Ladies Cup was staged at the UCLan Sports Arena when sixteen teams from all over the country took part in the event. The icing on the cake was a special award at the FA Women’s Awards at the Grosvenor Hotel in London earlier this year.

PNE have kindly given their support in siting the memorial at Deepdale and David Taylor, Deputy Chairman of Preston North End and the Chairman of UCLan said: “Both Preston North End and the University are happy to support the Centenary events to celebrate the Dick, Kerr Ladies Football Team. What these women achieved both on the field and off the field in terms of raising money for injured soldiers during the First World War is remarkable by any standards. The City of Preston can be rightly proud of the heritagel”.




Without the generous support from all our founder sponsors, this incredible memorial tribute would not be happening. They are: The FA, BAE Systems, UCLan, PNE, FWP Architects, UEFA and the PFA. They will all be represented at the unveiling.

The memorial will be unveiled at PNE by Sheila Parker, Rachel Brown Finnis and Gail Newsham. Sheila Parker began her football career with Preston (Dick, Kerr) Ladies and went on to become England captain in the first recognised International against Scotland at Greenock in 1972. She won thirty three international caps and was inducted into the National Football Museum Hall of Fame in 2013.

Rachel Brown Finnis is the former Everton and England goalkeeper. She won eighty two international caps playing in World Cups and UEFA Championships including the 2009 UEFA Championship final against Germany. She also won an FA Cup winners medal with Everton in 2010. She was inducted into the NFM Hall of Fame in 2016.

Former football player with Preston Rangers, (now AFC Fylde) Gail Newsham, organised the first ever reunion of the Dick, Kerr Ladies in 1992, and first published a book about them, In a League of Their Own!’ in 1994 after researching their remarkable undiscovered history. Gail has worked for the last twenty five years to keep their name alive and help raise awareness of their incredible success.

Among the eighty or so guests will be family members of some of the early pioneers, along with former players from the team who will also be in attendance. Sue Smith, former England Lioness Legend and Doncaster Belles star player will also be joining the guests for the celebrations.

The event is open to the public from 2.30pm who will be entertained by the East Lancashire Concert Band and a combined choir made up of The Kirkham Singers and Freckleton Village Singers, who will perform two songs before the unveiling. The band will be playing a special arrangement of the PNE anthem ‘Margie’ which has been arranged especially for them and will be the first time it has been played. BBC Radio Lancashire will be broadcasting live from the car park with John Gillmore and the unveiling will take place at 3.00pm.

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It’s a nightmare all of us occasionally have. As the plane taxies down the runway, as it starts to lift off into the air, as the ground drops further and further away… the faint, unstoppable fear that the next thing you feel might be gravity grabbing hold and dragging you down to a fiery grave. That’s the reason horrific air disasters tend to stick in our minds. It’s all too easy to imagine how those poor people on the Hindenburg, or on Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, or in the planes in the Tenerife Airport disaster must have felt.

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Montreal's forgotten tragedy: Family recounts Royal Air Force bomber crash of 1944

When she was finally told her father’s secret in her late teens, Donna Wells says she found it disorienting — as though she hadn’t known who he was.

“As a kid, you don’t think your parents had a life before you,” she says. “Then there’s this huge thing that happened to him, and it was so sad.”

James Wells had a wife and four children, but they were his second family. His first was killed in 1944 in a tragedy that is largely forgotten today.

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