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4 unusual facts about The Archbishop Lanfranc School


Holta

Viking passenger aeroplane, G-AHPM operated by Cunard Eagle Airways, transporting schoolboys from The Archbishop Lanfranc School in Thornton Heath, London, crashed into the mountainside above the farm (Holtaheia).

Holtaheia Accident

The 36 passengers were a school class of boys aged 13 to 16 and two masters from Lanfranc Secondary Modern School for Boys.

The Archbishop Lanfranc School

The school was originally founded in 1931 as a boys' school in Thornton Road, Thornton Heath, near the junction with Mitcham Road and is close to Mitcham Common.

The Archbishop Lanfranc School is a comprehensive secondary school in the Thornton Heath area of Croydon, south London, named after Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1070 to 1089.


Croydon Cemetery

In addition to these, the cemetery has a memorial to 34 boys and 2 masters from the The Archbishop Lanfranc School, who were killed in an aircraft crash near Stavanger Airport, Sola, in 1961.

Wayne Routledge

Routledge was born in Sidcup, South East London and attended Archbishop Lanfranc School in Thornton Heath.


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