Sherwood Crescent memorial garden
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Sherwood Crescent memorial garden
Image: © Richard Dorrell Taken: 4 Mar 2013
A lawned garden with shrubs and trees now occupies the site where numbers 13 to 16 Sherwood Crescent once stood. The homes were destroyed (together with several other local houses) on Wednesday, 21 December 1988 when a large section of a Boeing 747–121 airliner crashed to earth here. The plane was destroyed by an explosive device. The explosion and crash killed all 243 passengers and 16 crew members in the plane and a further 11 people on the ground. Memorial plaque detail: Image
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