Drop-Down Navigation Menu Menu An Extract From The Domesday Book For Mapperley (Maperlie) and Early History Albert Buckley's Record Carp - Barry Dibb Ale House and Ye Olde Black Horse Article by Rev'd Simon White taken from The Stanleys Magazine of July 2006. Candlestick, Poem - Let's Goo A Bit Fother Candlestick (Royal Oak) Cecil Raikes Locomative Census, 1841, 1851 and 1861 Census, 1939 Census, 1911, Census Analysis - Thanks to D. Curtis Chapel of Ease. Mapperley Church, Holy Trinity Church Institute Cinderella Panto 1979 Country Fayre - 1984 Country Images, article on Shipley Hall Jan 2012 Cuttings Book - Harriet and Pat Gould Derby Evening Telegraph - Article Bishop Dedicates a Place of Quiet Derby Mercury - Grand Bazaar At Shipley Hall - 1863 Derbyshire Life and Countryside. January 1998 - Mapperley Derbyshire Words and Phrases Evacuees in Mapperley World War 2 - Memories and Information Glendon Iron Company (1870-1885) Guide to Coalfields 1956 Handleys, Martins and Walkers of Mapperley Households 1881 The Hovel (Soot Shed 1920) Ilkeston Advertiser 1969 Ilkeston Pioneer 1957 Inquest into death of Mary Flint, 1846 Jubilee Fund 1977 and Interesting Church Timelines Kirk Hallam Memories, With Links To Mapperley Lodges and Gates Lodge Row Houses Main Street, Mapperley Village, No 17 - Joe Henshaw Maple Saplings Take Root At Mapperley Mapperley Brick Works Mapperley Bridge Mapperley Castle and Park Wood Mapperley Colliery (Simon Pit) History Mapperley Pit Photos - Many Thanks to Jill Westerman and Gail Vindel Mapperley - Early History, Domesday to 1600 Mapperley, from Kelly's Directory of the Counties 1891 Mapperley, from Bulmer's History, Topography and Directory of Derbyshire, 1895 Mapperley, from Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire 1941 Mapperley Knight by Bob Massey Mapperley Population Figures 1801 - 1911 Mapperley Mines Rescue Team - 1918 Mapperley Railway Branch Line Bombing WW2 Mapperley School Mapperley and West Hallam Information Memorial Inscriptions Memorial/Lych Gate Medieval Parks of Derbyshire Millennium Mugs Miller Mundys of Shipley Hall Miller-Mundy Provides Recreational Facility Miner Sacked For His Protest - D.A. Mackie Newspaper Articles Northern Lights over Mapperley Village, 10th October 2024 No 1 Mapperley Village And The Watheys Connections To West Hallam Scargill Trust Nutbrook Canal Open Casting 1979/80 Photos - Many Thanks to Dave and Jenny Thacker Park Farm, Pit Ponies and Alf Shaw. Park Hall Park Hall Farm and the Morgan Family Park Hall Farm Field 2021 - Coins Found by Metal Detector Park Hall was flooded with sludge Park Hall,(1778)(Field Names and Owners) Park Hall Farm Excavations 1970 (Ilkeston and District Local History Society) Picnic Tea Their 'Good Friday Effort' Post Office, Shops and Street Names Pre War Football Team Recalled circa 1935 Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir (known as The Pond) Reverend Gordon Bevan Royal Charter, 700th Anniversary, and Celebrations, 1967 Royal Charter, 750th Anniversary, and Celebrations, 2017 Royal Oak (Candlestick) Sawpit - Established 1810 Shipley Colliery Fatalities Shipley Colliery Horse Drawn Ambulance Lamps Shipley Hall Simonfield to The Brook by Roger Wood 2013 Smalley Lodge Bell Lane Stanley Colliery Fatalities Stanley Colliery 'Nibby' Pit Photos Stocks The Storms. Mapperleys 60's group Thomas Severn Variety Show in Holy Trinity c 1985 Water Tower - Roger Wood Watheys connections to West Hallam Scargill Trust Weslyan Chapel Mapperley/Methodist church West Hallam West Hallam Colliery Fatalities West Hallam Colliery - Terrible Accident 1891 West Hallam, New School Opened, 1935 Wheelwright Where Coal Was King. Ilkeston, Heanor White's 1857 Directory Of Derbyshire William Joseph Cliffe, named on the Memorial tablets Windmill Woodside Winding Shafts - Phil Wyles Wellington Bomber Flight W5795 crash landed 12th July 1942

Fred Cook, Crediton, Devon

Please find enclosed the small piece of aluminium which as an 11 year old I managed to collect from the site of the Wellington crash and which I am willing to donate to the MOSV Trust, hoping it will make a little bit of interest to those who remember the tragic event.  Hoping also the 11 July this year will be warm and a clear sky for the fly past and parade.

The piece of debris picked up by Fred was analysed by Boscombe Down Aviation Collection (Heritage Centre).  The piece is thought to be part of the Auto Pilot where a wire would run over the rollers and this part would have been situated beneath the pilot in the cockpit.  It is however confusing that no part number is stamped on but it is suspected that this was scratched on which was a normal wartime saving on engraving and this may have been where there is evidence of scraping on the part.  The part was recognised and is in amazingly good condition.  At least one other report of a piece of debris retained by a child from this plane has been relayed to me but the whereabouts or what happened to it are not known.  It is not known at this time what will be done with the piece but the Trustees will in due course preserve it in a frame for display in an appropriate setting.  I was also advised that one child frightened by the threat of police action did put some ammunition (Bullets) found in the village stream near the Bridge Inn!
 
Jessie Murry of Ilkeston was walking over ‘Seven Fields’ towards Dale at the time of the accident.  She is now 84 of age and still remembers the incident vividly.

Nancy Goodwin (Nee Page)  was sat on the Stanley Brook bridge next to the Bridge Inn, Stanley Village prior to the ‘boom’ that indicated the accident she said “I’m bored, nothing ever happens here.”  This just goes to show that the 14 year olds of today do have something in common with those far off days don’t they? 

Conclusion

Many people have phoned me and written in with regards to this dedication and their recollections and thoughts.  Unfortunately it is impossible to record all, but the underlying theme has been support and pride at the project as demonstrated by Edith Lane who wrote advising her late husband Bob was a rear gunner flying in Lancaster’s in WWII and said I count my blessings every day that he came home safe after all the operations he took part in.  Tom and Pat Cockeram of Uttoxeter, friends of both my wife and I wrote to make a donation especially as Tom had served as aircrew in WWII.  Tom had suffered a severe stroke but Pat assures me he was able to communicate his support.  Unfortunately I attended Tom’s funeral in Stafford on Monday 1 March 2004 knowing that he has not only gone to a better place but also that he will have good company – another brave Gentle – man.  It is men such as these, and the Aircrew we are commemorating whom we owe so much to – We Will Remember Them

All members above of the crew of Wellington Bomber Mk VI W5795 were killed when the aircraft crashed in Stanley Village on the Sunday evening of 12 July 1942 and are to be commemorated on a memorial stone to be placed next to the flag pole at a dedication service on Sunday 11 July 2004 to remember their World War II sacrifice but also their pioneering of high altitude flying

Wording on the Memorial

In Memory Of The Crew Of Wellington Mk VI W5795
Who Tragically Lost Their Lives On
12th July 1942
In A Crash In The Quarry Farm Area Of This Parish

  WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

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