Croydon Airport - Lancaster crash
As a boy attending Wallington Grammer School for Boys one of my classmates lived in a house in Lavender Vale which was different from its neighbours because it was built on the site of the house where the Lancaster crashed. I understood it was trying to make an emergency landing at Croydon. My friend's family found various relics when digging in the garden. My mother worked for an insurance agent who lived very close by and helped try to rescue the inhabitants of the house and/or the aircraft crew.