Oakmere House

He and his 18-man crew were all killed, and buried in the Potters Bar cemetery until their bodies were transferred to Cannock Chase many years later.

The Potters Bar Museum has a section devoted to this important incident in the aerial battles over England.

Amelia Chauncy had received the land as a gift from her uncle at the time of her wedding[2] in 1825 to Lieutenant Colonel William Leonard Carpenter.

After he married Amelia Chauncy in 1825 the couple went to live at Potters Bar and later built Oakmere House.

When William Carpenter died in 1861 they moved into Oakmere House and shortly after made alterations and additions to the building.

The 1891 Census shows them living in Oakmere House with five of their children, a cook, two housemaids, a kitchenmaid and a footman.

After this his son Henry Fairlam Lofts took the lease of Oakmere House and lived there with his brother and two sisters[6] until 1915.