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Old 19th Feb 2011, 07:44
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The Vickers Vellox accident (at 02.00 on 10 Aug 36) is described in the book I mentioned earlier in this thread "Croydon Airport the great days", including a photograph similar to the above, taken from the same place (but with different people standing and windows open, so not the same photo).

Vickers Vellox :

Vickers 212 Vellox - passenger

The houses struck were 14 and 16 Hillside Gardens, which appear (on Google Streetview) to be the houses at the junction with Southview Gardens (the photograph was possibly taken from an upstairs window of the first house in Southview Gardens), and the houses were damaged more by fire than by the impact. A policeman was badly burned trying to extract the crew, all four of whom were killed. This road is to the west of the airfield, about 2 streets west of Foresters Drive, whose houses received a number of pre-war accidents.
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