At Around 14:20 on the 24th of August 1944 ,the Halifax plane crashed in the Wetherby golf course because the engine caught fire  1000 feet up in the air.  They couldn't put it out so that's why it crashed. All the crew sadly lost their life  to this  traumatic experience (the pilot's name was  Sgt Clyde Osborne).

On the 15th of November 1941, the crew of the Blenheim where undertaking a training session and a spit fire from one of its team planes shot it down.They were aiming for a German twin engine, behind the Blenheim and miss shot it. The damage it coursed made it crash, it glided over Wetherby and down to the racecourse, no people got hurt but all the people in the plane died and the flight did not go to plan.        

The Bristol Blenheim is a British light bomber, designed and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, which was used extensively in the first two years of the II World War, with examples still being used as trainers until the end of the war.  

The Wetherby area saw industrial expansion during the Second World War, when munitions factories were built at Thorp Arch and in the 1960s at the Sandbeck Industrial Estate.

By: Issy , Eliza , Josh T , Molly , Elliott and Alyssia