Widmore Road Ghost in Uniform
On April 25th 1943 (Easter Sundey) at 0025 hours, Flight Lieutenant J.P.M Lintott D.F.C.,a member of a famous night squadron in Fighter Command shot down his first raider. The aircraft broke up over Bromley in Kent and wreckage was scattered over a wide area. The largest chunks of wreckage landed on Nos 124-126 Widmore Road, Bromley destroying the two large houses. These have since been replaced by a block of flats called Cromarty Court (about 30m from GZ).
A few years later Mrs Marie edwards moved into 157 Widmore Road and reported the following;
" It was about 1947 when we moved into no.157 Widmore Road Bromley. A few doors down on the opposite side of the road were the two houses that were damaged by the plane that crashed there. I never knew whether it was a British or a German plane, but it had sliced off the back of the two houses which were subsequently demolished. They were a pair of semi detached properties each with a basement, ground floor, first floor and an attic and I remember the steps leading up to the main door. The houses were eventually replaced by flats.
At the time we moved into 157, the property had been empty for a while and the garden was completely overgrown. I was a young girl then of course, but I remember clearly being told not to play at the bottom of our garden as some of the debris from the plane had also fallen there. We had to be careful as there were several small bits of metal as well as two large 'tanks'. I don't really know what they were.
In the house was a large mantlepiece, and one day when I was with my mother and grandmother we saw a man leaning against it. He was an officer in uniform, fair haired and cleanshaven and he stood there and said nothing. I don't know if he was British or German. We saw him several times over a period of about six weeks. Each time, he stood in the same place and never said a word. Eventually my grandmother got fed up with him and told him to go away. We never saw him again."
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