Unidentified Parker / Winn design aircraft near Harewood.
Details surrounding this incident are very sketchy and given that powered flight in the UK was first made in 1909 this was a very early aeroplane accident. It's sad that nothing is really know about the aircraft or its designers. All that is currently known is that on an unknown date in 1909 this unidentified early aircraft took off from a site at Harewood, cleared the hedge boundary of the field and immediately crashed and was damaged. The aircraft was designed and was being flown by one of the two named individuals who must have survived.
Pilot - Rowland Winn.
OR
Pilot - Charles Parker.
Charles Parker was a lantern operator at the Queen's Theatre, Holbeck, Leeds.
The identity of Rowland Winn has previous been suggested by others to have been Rowland George Winn (later 3rd Baron St Oswald of Nostell Priory) but I would like to suggest a more likely alternative. Another Rowland Winn, born in 1871 in Leeds who was a hydraulic and mechanical engineer but by 1899 was the first agent in Leeds selling a range of motor cars and with an interest in all things modern and mechanical. At this time motor cars on the roads were a new thing. By 1903 he was the first Ford agent in Yorkshire.