Wellington Bomber

At The Lamb Inn, we have memorabilia from a Wellington Bomber that crashed in the garden in 1943.

The only member of the crew to survive the crash was Mr. John Smith. Below is an excerpt from a letter John recently sent to The Lamb Inn.

" I spent many happy times in England whilst flying in the RAF - and as you know, one that was not so happy - when we crashed into the back garden of The Lamb Inn!

It was 1am in the morning - a black night. The Lamb Inn was full of people, most in bed asleep. They were extremely lucky - another 10 or 15 feet over and The Lamb Inn would have been demolished - many people would have been killed.

As it was, the aircraft's starboard (right) wing knocked out the left rear corner of the building. I got thrown out of the tail-turret and landed severely on my back with a number of injuries, a few feet from the burning aircraft.