This week residents gathered to mark 80 years since a second world war bomber crashed in their community. On February 26, 1944, a Sterling Bomber of the Canadian Airforce took off from RAF Winthorpe on a training flight. However, it would never make it back to base as the aircraft ran out of fuel and nose dived into a field narrowly missing Broomhill Grange Farmhouse, in Clipstone. Out of the entire air crew, five were killed in the crash and just two survived. Several years ago the owners of the farm, Robert and Jane Bealby, erected a permanent memorial on the crash site. It was here that on …
