Season: 4 Episode: 16

Three people were killed and three injured when the Imperial Airways liner, City of Washington, bound from Bourget for Croydon, crashed at Neuf Chatel near Boulogne, the North of France on 30th October 1930.

One of the victims was 29 year old Bristolian, Conrad James, a successful engineer who was coming home from Cairo to marry his sweetheart.

Find out more about the crash and how it impacted the lives of those left behind.

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This podcast has been specially edited from a Bradley Stoke Radio show in Bristol, England. 

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SOURCES

Western Daily Press - Friday 31 October 1930

Birmingham Daily Gazette - Friday 31 October 1930

Western Daily Press - Friday 07 November 1930

Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald - Saturday 08 November 1930

Ancestry

England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Harry Bolsover

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