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Peall Road Industrial Estate, Shamrock Road, CROYDON, CR0 3BT

An industrial estate seemingly given over almost in its entirety to carpet warehouses and sales of other floor coverings.

Looking over the cemetery wall.

Now part of the A23, this is generally a very busy road.

Fox watching two Croydon Council workers in the Mitcham Road Cemetery.

Lanfranc Air Crash Memorial. 9th August 1961. Thirty four pupils and two teachers of Lanfranc Secondary Modern School, Croydon, were killed when the Viking airliner they were flying in crashed while making the approach to the Sola Airport near Stavanger, Norway; they had been travelling to a camping holiday. The mass grave contains thirty four of the victims, buried together in Croydon Cemetery.

On 9 August 1961 a Vickers Viking operated by Cunard Eagle Airways (later British Eagle) crashed into a mountain near Holta on the approach to Stavanger Airport in Norway from Heathrow with the deaths of all 39 on board: 3 crew, 34 schoolboys from The Archbishop Lanfranc School in Thornton Heath, plus two members of staff from the school. Many of the group, flying to a camping holiday in the Norwegian highlands, had never flown before. The Norwegian report on the incident concluded that the pilot was off-course for unknown reasons. This is the memorial and burial place for 33 of the boys and one of the teachers. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14444295 and http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/10077.those_aboard_fatal_flight_rembered/

Lanfranc Air Crash Memorial. 9th August 1961. Thirty four pupils and two teachers of Lanfranc Secondary Modern School, Croydon, were killed when the Viking airliner they were flying in crashed while making the approach to the Sola Airport near Stavanger, Norway; they had been travelling to a camping holiday. The mass grave contains thirty four of the victims, buried together in Croydon Cemetery.

Lanfranc Air Crash Memorial. 9th August 1961. Thirty four pupils and two teachers of Lanfranc Secondary Modern School, Croydon, were killed when the Viking airliner they were flying in crashed while making the approach to the Sola Airport near Stavanger, Norway; they had been travelling to a camping holiday. The mass grave contains thirty four of the victims, buried together in Croydon Cemetery.

Croydon Cemetery was opened in 1876. It contains 195 scattered war graves of the First World War, most of them of local men. Some of the 150 Second World War burials form a small war graves plot in the Thornton Heath Extension. This is seen here together with the war memorial. As is so common elsewhere, they are beautifully kept in the manner of the war cemeteries in France and Belgium. Close by is the Archbishop Lanfranc School memorial to the Stavanger Air Crash of 1961 - see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3033847

Lanfranc Air Crash Memorial. 9th August 1961. Thirty four pupils and two teachers of Lanfranc Secondary Modern School, Croydon, were killed when the Viking airliner they were flying in crashed while making the approach to the Sola Airport near Stavanger, Norway; they had been travelling to a camping holiday. The mass grave contains thirty four of the victims, buried together in Croydon Cemetery.