Monday, August 9 marks 60 years since the tragic events of the Stravanger air crash, also known as the Lanfranc Boys Disaster.

The crash saw a Vickers Viking plane crash into a mountainside in Norway while en route to the Stravanger, killing all 39 people on board.

The main passengers were 34 pupils of the The Archbishop Lanfranc School in Thornton Heath, alongside two teachers and three air crew.

The crash was labelled the "the saddest day Croydon has ever known", and witnessed an outpouring of grief in Croydon and across the UK after news of the disaster broke.

Over the weekend and Monday, remembrance services were held in London and Norway, where a new plaque bearing the names of the deceased was unveiled on the mountainside where the crash happened.

In Croydon meanwhile, the disaster was also remembered at Croydon Minster church and by Crystal Palace Football Club who published the club's own account of the crash and moving recollection of its impact.

"Most of the boys were Palace supporters, good sportsmen themselves and, in their early teens, had their whole lives before them. Those lives were cut short when the plane crashed in bad weather, for reasons the British and Norwegian investigators never discovered," a statement on the club's website read.

The flight on the Eagle Airways Viking plane had been arranged as a special school trip for boys at the school with many of their families saving up especially for them to be on the trip.

Those who still remember the disaster remember recalled how "extra pocket money" was saved up by some, while some boys tragically confirmed their places on board with others by the chance of a coin toss.

When the bodies of the the schoolboys and one of their teachers returned to Croydon, crowds lined the streets of the borough to see their coffins transferred to a common grave at Croydon Cemetery on Mitcham Road that is now marked with a memorial to the group.

"The air was heavy with the scent of two thousand wreaths" that were made for the occasion, one news reel published on the day of the funereal recalled.