'Overexposed' B29 Superfortress Crash site (Revisit), Glossop, Derbyshire, April 2017

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People don’t tend to go to this site in the first place due to its remote location, let alone do a re-visit. It’s a good hour’s stomp from the roadside park-up atop the A57 Snake Pass between Manchester and Sheffield on the Sheffield side of Glossop. And Bleaklow, the place where the remains of the ill-fated B29 Superfortress nick-named ‘Overexposed’ can be found, lives up to it’s name.

I’ll not do the history bit/story of this crash site as I did it when I visited ‘Overexposed’ on the poignant date of 11/11 last year. You can see my previous report HERE.

There was method in my madness and a reason why I went back here but I’ll leave that for a future date. When myself and non-member GazzaM went back in November it was a bright sunny day and relatively warm. On the revisit it was barely above freezing due to a wicked head wind. One side of my body was frozen and devoid of feeling due to the wind on the walk back to the car. We also spent most of the visit getting dive-bombed by a helicopter dropping pellets to re-establish the heather up on this bleak corner of the country.

It’s hard to give a different take or angle on this place. It is what it is. However the weather was overcast and all the pictures are taken on my phone rather than using my SLR which for some inexplicable reason stayed in my bag.

Anyhow, enough rambling. Here’s the pictures:

33763641502_97575dbb3d_b.jpgOverexposed20 by HughieDW, on Flickr

33920392975_a8acbc451a_b.jpgOverexposed01 by HughieDW, on Flickr

33763582842_125b00d1c9_b.jpgOverexposed02 by HughieDW, on Flickr

33790807411_6691b78e70_b.jpgOverexposed03bw by HughieDW, on Flickr

33763545722_3908e8cd9e_b.jpgOverexposed04 by HughieDW, on Flickr

33535315390_f35658f30b_b.jpgOverexposed05 by HughieDW, on Flickr

33763483152_33e1e3201c_b.jpgOverexposed06 by HughieDW, on Flickr

33076702754_e71b26048a_b.jpgOverexposed07 by HughieDW, on Flickr

33879171696_516b690e9e_b.jpgOverexposed08 by HughieDW, on Flickr

33535204700_99ef2e007c_b.jpgOverexposed09 by HughieDW, on Flickr

33919905395_b83e53b6e3_b.jpgOverexposed10 by HughieDW, on Flickr

33879128016_6b32770cda_b.jpgOverexposed11 by HughieDW, on Flickr

33879100486_3ca3f407f4_b.jpgOverexposed12 by HughieDW, on Flickr

33763308352_ee5383e279_b.jpgOverexposed13 by HughieDW, on Flickr

33920050605_974d371e96_b.jpgOverexposed14 by HughieDW, on Flickr

33076439524_f20849d58d_b.jpgOverexposed16 by HughieDW, on Flickr

33107235413_d73d4b946b_b.jpgOverexposed17 by HughieDW, on Flickr

33790381231_032ca5df97_b.jpgOverexposed18 by HughieDW, on Flickr

33790342951_abcd48b5c3_b.jpgOverexposed19 by HughieDW, on Flickr

33926354755_bfd83c5d26_b.jpgOverexposed22 by HughieDW, on Flickr

33884862166_e273fe57f3_b.jpgOverexposed21bw by HughieDW, on Flickr

33541250890_6642267267_b.jpgOverexposed23 by HughieDW, on Flickr
 
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Good report, I loved it up there, was hardly anyone about when I went.
Took my bike up there, was harder work than I thought lol
 
Another cracking report on this site from you hughie
 
Well that kind of sends a shiver when I read your other post about the sites history.

Very sad and yet ever so interesting, most worthy of a visit.Thank you.
 

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