Temple Hirst used to have it’s own railway station that also serviced Hirst Courtney. There were 2 lines then. If you turn up the service road in between the bridges, the station was on the other side over to the right. Access was gained before the bridge. There are new build houses now in the old train yard but some buildings still remain in use from the old station.

The 'crash crew' used to recover any crashed aircraft in the local area. A Halifax bomber came down in the field next to the track near Temple Hirst station, on its approach to Burn airfield. The 'crash crew' arrived to find everyone had survived and the plane was stable. They laid railway sleepers along the field and assembled a make shift runway. The plane bobbed along lifted up in the air and made the hop over to Burn Airfield ok. The whole village turned out to watch.

Fred Denby

Albert

Some information about the house called 'Mission Accomplished'. The House used to be the village School until the new School was opened in 1930.

"We purchased the building in 1976 and it was advertised for sale as The Mission Hall at Hirst Courtney. At this time we ran the local hostelry in West Haddlesey and were in no rush to complete the conversion of the Mission Hall into a private dwelling, we eventually finished the conversion in 1985. Hence the name "Mission Accomplished".

S & I Jempson