http://www.lowewood.com/cheshunt/b24-liberator-bomber-crash Your guide to local history, news and events in the Borough of Broxbourne Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:49:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.lowewood.com/cheshunt/b24-liberator-bomber-crash/comment-page-1#comment-142 Dr Bernard Nau Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:53:41 +0000 http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=608#comment-142 I saw & heard the ill-fated Liberator bomber seconds before it crashed on Maxwells Fm, Cheshunt, in a field just west of the Cambridge Arterial Road (now A10). It passed just to the south of our house (15 Hillside Avenue), we saw it flying westwards in more or less level flight, perhaps 100-200 feet above the ground. My mother shouted to my sister & me that it was going to crash, and hurried us into the air-raid shelter in our back garden - where we stayed for a long time until the noise of exploding bombs and ammunition died away. Our house was about 700 yds from the crash site, I was seven years old at the time. Other memorable wartime events included watching a V1 'cruise missile' pass low over Cheshunt one night shortly before exploding in Grundy Park. It demolished the sports pavilion then used as an infant's school. Also, a Sunday afternoon walk interrupted by a V2 rocket exploding about half a mile away, near Bury Green cemetery, Cheshunt. We were just passing a shop window in Crossbrook Street, N of the railway bridge, when the blast hit us, deflecting the window by what seemed about a foot and accompanied by the loudest bang I ever heard. I saw & heard the ill-fated Liberator bomber seconds before it crashed on Maxwells Fm, Cheshunt, in a field just west of the Cambridge Arterial Road (now A10). It passed just to the south of our house (15 Hillside Avenue), we saw it flying westwards in more or less level flight, perhaps 100-200 feet above the ground. My mother shouted to my sister & me that it was going to crash, and hurried us into the air-raid shelter in our back garden – where we stayed for a long time until the noise of exploding bombs and ammunition died away. Our house was about 700 yds from the crash site, I was seven years old at the time.
Other memorable wartime events included watching a V1 ‘cruise missile’ pass low over Cheshunt one night shortly before exploding in Grundy Park. It demolished the sports pavilion then used as an infant’s school. Also, a Sunday afternoon walk interrupted by a V2 rocket exploding about half a mile away, near Bury Green cemetery, Cheshunt. We were just passing a shop window in Crossbrook Street, N of the railway bridge, when the blast hit us, deflecting the window by what seemed about a foot and accompanied by the loudest bang I ever heard.

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