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Here is a story that many of the longer serving village folk may remember, from 1953? It is the time a large whale was washed ashore here at Hale.
The incident took place on 15th September 1953, down at the Ladypool brook as it enters the River Mersey. The picture opposite shows the whale on the shore with the local bobby's sitting on it. The constables in the picture are: Fred Heaton the village bobby, Constable Saddler and Constable Huckerby.

The village bobby at the time was Constable Fred Heaton who can be seen sitting at the back on the left, he also played football for Hale FC, who's playing field/football pitch was down Carr Lane-the first field on the right! Unfortunately there is a sad end to this village story, is that the whale didn't survive.

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Credits: Mr F Eaton, Mr J. Bagley,

Remember The Hale Whale? 1953

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The Trislander Aircraft Crash. 1987

During the winter of 1987 a small mail plane crash landed in near by fields dilberately, to miss nearby housing developments in Hale. The 3 engined Trislander Mail plane, registration G-OCME, suffered engine failure on it's final approach to runway 2.7 (two seven) at Liverpool Airport. The incident took place, on the morning of Monday 9th February, 1987.
The pilots skill and quick thinking enabled him to deliberately crash-land the plane on the marsh field, passing 3 of the housing estates here in the village: The Curlender/Hale Park Estate, Ellwood Close and the nearby Wimpy Estate/Arklow Drive. The trislander mail plane ended up in the brook near the small bridge on Carr Lane, the pilots quick thinking and split seconds decision to down the plane in near by fields saved the village from a major incident and saving his own life too! As can be seen from the newspaper-headline, he was hailed a hero, for skillfully avoiding the village!

The Trislander mail plane was owned by Aviation West, who operated the Isle Of Man mail run between Liverpool Airport and Ronaldsway. On Monday 9th February 1987 Trislander G-OCME departed Liverpool on the morning mail run (flight number AVW007), to the Isle of Man. Unfortunately Ronaldsway was below minima due to bad weather. After holding for a while waiting for the weather to clear, AVW007 diverted back to Liverpool Airport. On approach to 27 G-OCME suffered a loss of power and force landed on farm land near to the sewerage plant, half a mile NE of Hale village. Damage was extensive, although there was no fire, the pilot escaping with slight injuries. The wreckage was roaded into the Airport on 10th February at around 1800 hours, having been released by the AAIB. The aircraft was quickly stripped in No.1 hangar for spares. The late delivery of a new aircraft, coupled with the loss of the trislander mail plane G-OCME, put financial strain on the company. Due to cash-flow problems, Aviation West entered into receivership on March 27th 1987.