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There is a photograph of Arthur Aldersley on Earby People & Places. Then & Now. It is taken in the 1930s outside 12 Spring Terrace. Hi Moh, Yes we have seen this. Our research is about Jack Croft because he was one of the crew members on the flight we are researching, Arthur knew Jack and u...

Small update: the private photo on ancestry of jack is the same as the other public photo. We might also have a photograph of jack's younger sister Betty and we have a photograph of jack's older sister Christina dated 1996. I want to thank this forum for helping to find a photograph of jack and to b...

Stanley wrote:Fred Inman (see his transcripts in the LTP) lived on Spring Terrace most of his life. Worth reading if you want a general sense of what it was like living there. Pity he's dead because he almost certainly knew your family.

Thank you Stanley

The electoral registers in Earby for 1939 & 1945 are available on Ancestry, if you were looking to track families of ex neighbours down then that's the place to start. Jack's father is listed as Charles Carey Croft. I believe the gentleman who lived at no 12 is nearly 99 years old now, there is...

Here i have a video about a Wellington Gun Turret Drill, the same Jack Croft used to do. [BBvideo 550,450]http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f58_1413945957[/BBvideo] Note : Listen at 1:41 to 1:44 and compare it with my previous post where the last signal was received & also note the time in the vide...

Some extra information for the people interested in this story. Our research team has been busy for 3 years investigating this Crew/Plane. It is amazing how close we feel to this crew and what "joy" it brings us to "solve" this case. We have "nearly" all the information...

I have been talking this evening to a lady who was brought up at 20 Spring Terrace and yes, it is the row of houses on Stoneybank Road just up from the mill. She knew of the Croft family and Jack's death, though she would have been very young at the time. Jack's father was the Engineman at Spring M...

Am i correct in believing that Spring terrace was on the Stoneybank Road or was it a side street on this road? Does anybody have a photograph of Spring terrace dating 1940-1945? I'm not sure about this but it would seem that Spring Terrace is now numbers 8 to 24 Stoneybank Rd. Number 8 being the ho...

I hope you will keep us updated with your progress Ryan. Sure will Wendy! One of our researchers went to the national archives in Kew today and found a hand written letter of Jack's father. Another researcher is trying to get in contact with the person on Ancestry, i found out it's a Fenning, jack'...

Hi wendy,

Can you send me the link if possible?

/Edit

I have found it, thanks!

We will also try to contact the person who uploaded this photograph on Ancestry to try to find out some more information.

Fantastic Wendy!
Thank you very very much!
I will make a small donation to this site for the help!

Woow it could be yes.

Do you have a link from the ancestry site Wendy?

/Edit i found it.

YESS it must be him, Jack was born in 1919!

Wendyf wrote:I've posted a request for photos on the Earby Then & Now Facebook page, you never know!
Will also have a look through the history society's photo archive.

Thanks again Wendy!

Thank you very much Wendy.

We have this information you posted + the newspaper articles.
We are also in contact with the relatives of Jack Croft but unfortunately no one has a photograph.

Our main focus is on finding a photograph of Jack Croft, we have photographs of the other 5 crew members.

Hello, I stumbled upon this website after googling about earby. We are busy with a research project over here in the Netherlands about a world war 2 plane that crashed in the north sea on the 3rd of august 1940. One of the crew members was a Jack Millen Croft from Earby. * The croft family was livin...