Did my mother witness a flying boat crash?
My mother, who is 88 and born in 1929, is writing her memoirs and one of her most profound memories is of seeing a flying boat crash into a hill while she had been evacuated to Otterham Mill near Bude in North Cornwall. She thinks she was between 11 or 13 and that this was during a period when she was schooled at home by her mother. I have had a search on the net but can find no record of anything that matches her recollection. Here it is in her own words. "It occurred while my parents and the rest of the family were staying at Otterham Mill, near Boscastle. This was a private sort of evacuation as we had come from Hosrmonden in Kent where we experienced doodle bugs and flying bombs. We were also on the flight path from Germany to London. "We all arrived at Otterham Station with our bikes on the train. I think my father couldn't stay long as he had to get back to his work in a bank in London. "My godmother, May Fountain, was a teaching colleague of my mother...