Picture of "The Messerschmitt Me 109 @ Barretts Car Showroom 1940"?

[joyban]

Hi

I was reading at http://www.barrettskent.co.uk/about-us/history/ of the "The Messerschmitt Me 109 @ Barretts Car Showroom 1940?". I was wondering if any one had any details of this Aircraft and if at all any picture remains of this Aircraft while being present at the Barretts Car Showroom 1940?

Many thanks

Sujoy

Clearing up after the bomb in the Garage

If most people had gone to war, the war came to Barretts in October 1940. The Kentish Gazette ran a (successful) campaign to raise £5000 to buy a Spitfire. To help this fund-raising project a Messerschmitt Me 109 that had crash landed intact and was put on display in the Garage. In 10 days 3885 people saw it, raising £88 for the fund. The exhibition closed on 12th October. On Monday the 14th the Luftwaffe accidentally got its revenge. A lone raider came out of some low cloud and dropped 2 high explosive bombs on the High Street, causing several fatalities and much damage, and 2 incendiaries, one of which fell through the garage roof damaging two buses, some offices and the Me 109! The roof was repaired, but not the offices, and the war moved to the rest of Canterbury. Barretts survived unscathed in the heavy Baedeker raids of June 1942.