I REFER to the report of the long overdue memorial to the souls who lost their lives when the Halifax crashed in 1944.

I was a 13-year-old lad at the time and listened to my elders discussing the sad event and the talk was that the pilot put the aircraft down in what is now known as Meadow Court to protect the heavily populated area of Moordown.

Meadow Court was then still a gravel and sand pit and it was said that the terraced cottages where the Malvern Centre is were the homes of the pit workers.

Not many years before this, Wimborne Road was reduced to just a narrow lane with a row of houses on the northern side before it joined up with Castle Lane.

Then Mr Lawford sold his prized piece of land to widen the road to what it is now, but those three properties known as ‘Lawford Rise’ must retain his name.

JIM EVANS, Home Road, Kinson, Bournemouth