uk bomb damage.

[raf]

i maybe some years late but i keep looking for bomb damaged sites in the uk.

i guess most buildings have now been re-built or the land has changed.

does anybody have any info on this.....like craters in fields etc.

if not then in the uk the germany ive seen plenty of pics of the somme are from WW1.

many thanks

[spotter]

I just did a web search for "bomb crater still visible today" found a few matches in the UK hope this helps

[kfz]

Originally Posted by raf

i maybe some years late but i keep looking for bomb damaged sites in the uk.

i guess most buildings have now been re-built or the land has changed.

does anybody have any info on this.....like craters in fields etc.

if not then in the uk the germany ive seen plenty of pics of the somme are from WW1.

many thanks

You dont go to Liverpool ot Birmingham or Coventry or Plymouth then?

Your from wigan? Never got the train into liverpool and not wondered why the station (James St) is a new 1960's building and the building either side of it are pre WW1?? Cos a parachute mine blew the **** out of it.

[raf]

Originally Posted by kfz

You dont go to Liverpool ot Birmingham or Coventry or Plymouth then?

Your from wigan? Never got the train into liverpool and not wondered why the station (James St) is a new 1960's building and the building either side of it are pre WW1?? Cos a parachute mine blew the **** out of it.

thanks.

i drive 1500 miles a week and cover all the country but wouldnt think twice if i saw an old building with a new bit next to it....i would just think prince charles has designed some master piece .

like i said it may be to many years to late to notice why an old builing has a new bit.

i went to coventry a few months ago and just noticed a lot was new.

bomb damaged buildings would have been patched up and will now blend in i was at victoria station in london last week and couldnt notice that a plane had crashed into it.

[kfz]

Originally Posted by raf

thanks.

i drive 1500 miles a week and cover all the country but wouldnt think twice if i saw an old building with a new bit next to it....i would just think prince charles has designed some master piece .

like i said it may be to many years to late to notice why an old builing has a new bit.

i went to coventry a few months ago and just noticed a lot was new.

bomb damaged buildings would have been patched up and will now blend in i was at victoria station in london last week and couldnt notice that a plane had crashed into it.

its easy to miss, gotta stay awake. Next time im there I will take a pic. There is a pic somewhere of whopping parachute mine

[raf]

thanks.

ive just googled bomb damage and things like ....a pond in a park was created from a german bomb and a cricket pitch has a nice dip to it in durham from a v1.

interesting.....unless you know its hard to spot.

cheers

[Owen]

Guards Memorial at Horse Guards Parade, London has minor bomb splinter damage.
http://www.roll-of-honour.com/London...seGuards-1.jpg

[von Poop]

Another good clue is often in rows of terraced houses where 1 or 2 are missing or replaced by newer buildings, I've got an excellent booklet on bomb strikes in leicester and these are certainly the easiest to spot.
And a mate's just telling me that the V&A has bomb damage on the side facing the Natural History Museum.

[Owen]

True VP, in Ipswich Street, Swindon are two terraced houses that were rebuilt after a bomb missed the GWR Railway Works.

[adrian roberts]

Another good clue is often in rows of terraced houses where 1 or 2 are missing or replaced by newer buildings

In SE London you don't have to walk more than a few streets to find examples of this. Frequently there is a older semi-detached house, with the chimney flue leading up the outside of the side wall - often a sign that there was originally another house attached to that side.
There are various duck-ponds around, said to have been caused by bomb craters; e.g at Godstone Farm animal sanctuary.
Cleopatra's Needle on the Thames Embankment has splinter damage from a bomb dropped in the First World War - the first bomb dropped on London by an aeroplane as distinct from an airship

Adrian