The St Georges Hotel at Teeside airport used to be the officers mess when it was RAF Middleton St George. At one time of its life it was an Advanced Flying School using the Meteor T7 jet trainer. The Meteor was a wartime twin engine design with the engines mounted mid way along the wings which gave it ferocious asymmetric qualities. The Air Force at that time insisted that OEI training was done with one engine shut down, therebye, as was proven many times, giving you no chance if you fouled it up at low level as you did not have an ejector seat.
So it came to pass at Middleton where a student lost it, careered across the airfield and fatally planted his Meteor into the side of the officers mess.
After a few years the ghost rumours started to surface especially when the airfield changed to civvy use and the mess became a hotel. This was especially useful when Air UK were stopping overnight when the hosties, having been primed by ServiceAir, would be reminded in the bar of this tragedy. This would lead to one of them being escorted around the building to observes the fresh pointing in the brickwork on the wing that they were being accommodated in. This would sometimes lead them to being very fearful of sleeping alone.
The pointing in question was actually there because some old ivy had been pulled from the wall and it had taken some mortar with it. The real repair was the other side but that was a waste of time as they weren't staying at that end.
I had this scheme of applying some dirty grey paint to the pointing in the shape of a Meteor head on but they shifted us to an establishment in Middleton One Row before that could be initiated.
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