Readers Photos: Anson over Alderley

by Lisa Reeves

Saturday 13^th August 2022

Sat 13^th Aug 2022

David Fairbotham kindly sent us these photo taken from Wizard Country Park on Saturday, 13th August.

David commented "A fine example of Roy Chadwick's "Faithful Annies", Avro Anson G-VROE routing to and from the Avro Heritage Museum at Woodford, for their Wings and Wheels Air Fair weekend."

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Comments

Here's what readers have had to say so far. Why not add your thoughts below.

Vince Chadwick

Sunday 14^th August 2022 at 8:00 pm

Superb picture, David. Thanks!

This afternoon I was home in time to see (and hear!) the BBMF Lancaster fly over Alderley on its run in to display at the Avro Museum event.

Sonia Chadwick

Tuesday 16^th August 2022 at 10:20 pm

Thank you for the picture, it very good and clear. Roy Chadwick was my 11th cousin 6x. I do my family tree on ancestry.

Marcia McGrail

Wednesday 17^th August 2022 at 4:53 pm

What a lovely picture - thank you for the glimpse of what we missed, David! ..and, wow! Sonia, I am in awe of you with such an illustrious forebear (and is the other commentator one of your relatives too?)

Vince Chadwick

Thursday 18^th August 2022 at 9:28 am

Not as far as I know. I'm no relation to Roy Chadwick, and 'Chadwick' is a pretty common surname in Lancashire and Cumbria.

Roy Chadwick, as Avro's chief designer, took the company from wood and canvas aeroplanes like the Anson to all-metal stressed skin designs such as the Lancaster bomber and the Tudor airliner in a few years. Shortly before his death he even produced early sketches of a futuristic delta-winged bomber which would become the Avro Vulcan.

Sadly he never saw the Vulcan come to fruition (first flight 1952) as he was killed in the take-off crash of an Avro Tudor at Woodford in 1947, the year that the Ministry of Supply issued the requirement to the aircraft industry that resulted in the nuclear deterrent 'V' bombers, the Vickers Valiant, Handley Page Victor, and the superb Avro Vulcan.