A lunchtime spent on a DIY navigation assessment around Rud Hill. Except the 10th checkpoint had an incorrect grid reference. So @billgordon1 (instagram) confirmed there really really wasn’t an ‘aircraft wreck’ in Stanage Plantation, the #worldwideweb confirmed that an aircraft had indeed crashed on Rud Hill (Wellington Mk.IC Z8980 of No.27 OTU, crashed on Rud Hill near Sheffield whilst on a night training flight from RAF Lichfield on the 17th July 1942, all 5 of the crew survived the crash, although 3 of them lost their lives later in WW2) but didn’t give a grid reference, my @twitter followers confirmed where the nearest crash sites were, and @paulbesleywriter (instagram) sent me a grid reference for the crash site. Thanks all.
Researching, as one does, about the features of a walk (afterwards) i came upon two anecdotes about Brown Hill Quarries: (1) It seems that in the late 19th/early 20th century there was a custom that on sighting the first bumble bee in spring, work stopped in the quarries and the owner sent to the Norfolk Arms for beer for the men to celebrate the arrival of Spring, and (2) the charity that i work for ( @cpre_pdsy on instagram ) successfully campaigned in the 1980’s to prevent the Council from using the quarries for landfill purposes.
Here here to a Spring bee(r) 🐝🍻
