writes Barry Shurlock. But a new investigation by a museum curator has come up with a completely different story. It turns out that it was in fact a British training aircraft which crashed near the pond after losing a flap and climbing vertically out of control. The pilot, who died in the crash, was in the process of obtaining his wings two months before the Battle of Britain. The sleuthing has been done by former Observer Lieutenant Neville Cullingford, who served for many years in the Royal Observer Corps and is now Honorary Curator of its Museum. Outlining his discoveries, he said: “I’ve always been fascinated by the story about the crash, which was thought to involve an enemy aircraft, as reported in the Echo in 1972. I started to ask local residents who had lived in the area during WWII if they had any recollections of this fighter crashing into Fisher’s Pond.
Medway 100-year-old twins delighted to get Covid vaccine on same day in Rochester
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Updated: 18:39, 21 January 2021
Two inseparable 100-year-old identical twins received their Covid vaccines this week and were delighted to get their jabs together.
Twins Dorothy Sivyer and Kathleen Whitehead, from Medway, who are 100 both received their coronavirus vaccine jabs in Rochester. Picture: NHS Kent and Medway CCG
And just like the major events throughout their lifetimes so far, the sisters were side-by-side once again as they were given the coronavirus jabs on Wednesday.
The ladies, believed to be the UK s oldest identical twins, were vaccinated at the Rochester Healthy Living Centre.