When the goods station in Newcastle was bombed, now the site of the Newcastle Business School, a barrel of fat flew through the air and stuck on the side of Gibson st Baths 4-500m away. My dad saw it stuck on the wall, the morning after the raid, on his way to work. Visible is the mark that it left in the stone work, about halfway along the wall on Gibson st and about two thirds of the way up, next to an air conditioning thing.
Bath has a very good archive of the Cities Bombing and you can even get maps showing where the bombs fell and the UXBs located. Bath Blitz Memorial Project That is a fab little resource - hadn't looked previously. Must remember to take it with me when next I visit that most confusing town (we always get slightly lost there, we think it may be the terraces' curves that throw us... but it's probably just us.)
Peterhastie: When the goods station in Newcastle was bombed, now the site of the Newcastle Business School, a barrel of fat flew through the air and stuck on the side of Gibson st Baths 4-500m away. My dad saw it stuck on the wall, the morning after the raid, on his way to work. Visible is the mark that it left in the stone work, about halfway along the wall on Gibson st and about two thirds of the way up, next to an air conditioning thing. This it?
I grew up in Peckham, and as a kid it struck me that the houses each side of our row were old and yet we were in modern 60's houses. The neighbours used to tell stories of their still being bombs underground unexploded. The whole area was a mix of new/old/prefab and I clearly remember one of my mate from primary school living in the only house standing in this particular sq mile. This would have been about 1976. The area around Hollydale Road/Queen's Rd Peckham and Peckham High street was mullered by the look of things. I spent hours on the bomb sites messing about, mostly they were used as dumping grounds and pretty lethal but you know what kids are like. At the end of my road was Ivydale Road and this had sporadic houses missing - this was V1 hits. I later found out that the house I lived in was on the site of a V1 as well. Sth London as been said is covered in bomb damage, and a trip up the old Kent road is a journey in destruction. The Woolys in New Cross that was hit while full of shoppers has a plaque outside that I drive past every day. Burgess Park and the area around it is stunning in its amount of damage sustained. It was flattened totally - with massive loss of life. Bolinas Road in Millwall there is a metal railway bridge, and it is peppered with shrapnel scars always used to see it went we went to football. This is a great site for reference. FlyingBombsandRockets,V1,V2,Rockets,Flying bombs, On another note, where I am now in Sittingbourne - I learnt recently by a chance meeting that the house I have now was hit by incendaries and was lucky to survive. Other bits I know of where from mates who living in east London and there house in Wanstead had crooked walls and the surveyor reported it was bomb damage. Plus the many ponds in the forest there from Luftwaffe raiders that had ditched bombs and bugged out.
You might want to try Lincolnshire for bomb craters: there are loads dropped from Lancasters on their way back from bombing raids (they couldn't land with them, as there was always a chance they'd go off, so the crew just dropped them). There are some near Caistor, and near East Kirkby (where there is also a nice Lincs Aviation Museum, with a Lanc). Happy Hunting, James
Bolinas Road aint in Millwall, it's in Bermondsey. Millwall is in north london It's why everyone from the Island should be, like me, a Hammer I've probably got shrapnel on my house front somewhere. The houses opposite were hit by a V2 (but then my street also got hit by Zepps in ww1!)
here's a nice one, the S for shelter All sizes | S for shelter. A World War Two shelter sign. | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Because I don’t know who to lift an image from googlemap I cant show you the image, but if your ever in Cullompton Devon take a look at the Town Hall in the High Street, up on the wall is an old ARP First Aid Post sign.
Because I don’t know who to lift an image from googlemap I cant show you the image, but if your ever in Cullompton Devon take a look at the Town Hall in the High Street, up on the wall is an old ARP First Aid Post sign. Here you go.
not sure if its been mentioned but Wolverhampton also has 2 good (although i think 1 now has ben panted over) ARP horse shelter signs matt
Thats it, I don’t no how you copied theses images In Google Earth, after you have found your location in street view, select File>Save>Save Image
Lines of bomb craters in fields all over the north west , some visible when travelling along the M62 nr Burtonwood Airfield but in a line . look like duckponds ,
Wall in front of the central library, junction of the Headrow and Calverly street,leeds city centre. I think myself and Bradlad were discussing this a while back, but I couldn't photo it because of renovations in the area.
In the centre of Plymouth is the shell of a burnt out church, left as a memorial. It is now in the middle of a major roundabout, with a new shopping centre, the police station and part of the University as near neighbours.
Google Earth/Maps/Street View around York 1. Amberley Street. The red pantiles show where the Button family were all killed. Flip to street view to see the new houses built in the 1960's. 2. Scott Street. Street View shows a different coloured brick used to rebuild. Chimneys are very tall and slim on these 2/3 houses reflecting the post war shortage of bricks (a victorian chimney used a LOT of bricks!). 3. York Cemetery. Many shrapnel damaged gravestones in the area near the office. 4. Scarcroft School. Lot's of cracks. Shifting. 5-6 killed on this street also. 5. Bootham Crescent. Street View shows where bay windows blown out and replaced with wooden bays. 6. 20 Burton Stone Lane is fairly dramatic in Street View. 7. Nunthorpe Grove. Missing house number and different coloured bricks where Halifax crashed with bomb load. York was bombed by Zepellin's in WW1 and there are signs on Upper Price Street where a house was demolished.
Have found a photo which best illustrates where I grew up with all its blitz damage... The Isle of Dogs was very much still a bombsite, even forty years after the event. I really did play in bomb shelters and the rubble of collapsed buildings, even in the 70's, lol! These houses were never fully re-occupied post war and stood in this condition until the early 1990's. This photo is probably mid 80's. I never went inside them as they had a touch of 'Hobb's End' about them...