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Originally Posted by Alan J.
My mother, born 1908, spoke of seeing an aircraft on the ground in a field near Hauxley and lots of people there sightseeing, if it was this one she would have been about 6 years old.
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Thanks for the information, Alan - aeroplanes were still novelties to most of the population and any landing inevitably attracted a crowd. The landing at Seaton Carew I mentioned above drew several thousand people to watch the aircraft take off from the beach.
The details of the landing site are vague -
a field at the rear of Hauxley. A BE.2a would have been able to land in any large grass field, providing it was not too bumpy or muddy.