Cody Road (Prefabs)

I used to live in No 55 Cody Road in the prefabs, from 1948 until 1959. I returned last year (2009), I found the road our prefab was on the corner of Cody Road and Brookhouse Road. I remember we had a large area of grass in front of us with a big green electricity box. The one thing that sticks in my memory was the time we had just come out of school (Tower Hill) and the Air Show was on the following week and the planes were practicing. Next thing a Hawker Hunter came so low over our heads we thought it was going to hit the houses. Next thing we heard a bang and the plane had crashed in the field close to Marrowbrook Lane. So as kids we all ran down there and all we could see was the wreckage all around and a very big whole in the ground. The adults told us to move away. We heard later that the Egyptian pilot died at the Clock House roundabout while on the way to hospital.