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Scans matching “Birch”7 scans

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  Image from the RAF ADP Association Bircham Newton ghost page; content not identified Scan

  from RAF Bircham Newton: the sick-quarters footsteps and the haunted squash court (1949)
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  Spooky squash courts in Bircham Newton Scan

  Evelyn Simak/geograph ·from RAF Bircham Newton: the sick-quarters footsteps and the haunted squash court (1949)
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  Portrait of Alex Birch Scan

  from The Alex Birch Flying Saucer Photograph, Mosborough (1962)
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  Daily Express report of Birch's confession, 1972 Scan

  Daily Express ·from The Alex Birch Flying Saucer Photograph, Mosborough (1962)

  THE Great Flying Saucer Hoax was revealed yesterday. . . TEN YEARS after it happened—and by the man who pulled off the spoof. Alex Birch, now a 24-year-old salesman, confessed how he fooled the world with a box-camera photo that brought him fame. At the time of his incredible "scoop" Alex was a 14-y…

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  News of the World front page, 2 September 1962 Scan

  News of the World ·from The Alex Birch Flying Saucer Photograph, Mosborough (1962)

  BOY STARTS NEW PROBE INTO FLYING SAUCERS NEWS OF THE WORLD REPORTER A PHOTOGRAPH boy has started an investigation riddle. The picture, the sky, was taken by playing with friends at his home in Moorcrescent, Mosborough, near Sheffield. He and his father visited the Air Ministry in London, told office…

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  Newspaper cutting on the Birch photograph Scan

  from The Alex Birch Flying Saucer Photograph, Mosborough (1962)
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  Alex Birch with his camera Scan

  from The Alex Birch Flying Saucer Photograph, Mosborough (1962)