"Did a Nazi bomb fall on your house?"

  • Thread starter Thread starter Mat
  • Start date Start date

Mat

Mat

Mat

Soldato
Joined
18 Oct 2002
Posts
13,928
Yesterday's Metro had a link to bombsight.org which shows all the bombs dropped on London recorded in the bomb census between 7/10/1940 and 06/06/1941.

27zamue.png


I was surprised at how many were dropped in such a short amount of time. You can zoom in and get info on individual bombs and also see the lines of impacts from a single aircraft; it's all interesting stuff.

2d9o3kw.png


Are you living on an old impact site?!

(They really hated Hyde Park :p )
 
My house was built where an aerial mine obliterated 3 cottages in 1943.

I find rubble every time I dig deeper than two feet in the back garden.

There's not a single street near me that has a complete row of the original houses as the Luftwaffe often dropped their bombs long when aiming for the East End's docks and warehouses.
 
interesting would like this info on the other blitz Sheffield Coventry ect..my dad was as a 6 year old he can remember him and his brother looking from there bedroom window in awe at the searchlights and anti aircraft fire been thrown up over Sheffield in December 1940.
 
A colleague of mine, his father was a member of the Luftwaffe. I was over at my colleague/friends house recently and he was showing me loads of memorabilia he has from his dad who was also a POW. He also had some instruments from inside the plane his dad flew. Really interesting actually!
 
A house up the road got bombed but it must have been not in this time frame.

My mum lives in the vicinity of the old RAF Hornchurch.
 
slightly off topic as I live in the North East of England but...

recently I looked in to how many bombs dropped near me in in WW2 but was stunned to find just how many dropped in WW1 by Zeppelin !

"Airships made about 51 bombing raids on England during the war. These killed 557 and injured another 1,358 people. More than 5,000 bombs were dropped on towns across Britain"

Up to 800 feet long and travelling at 80 mph must have been fairly impressive almost exactly 100 years a go.
 
Jeez, never knew that many were dropped. Being right out in Welling, I thought no way one in our street, but yep, there was one dropped.

I live near Danson Park which has a huge lake. I know the nazis used to to use the lake as a navigational aid to tell them when they was approaching London. Lots of bombs in Dartford. I imagine they dropped one on anything that remotely looked like a factory or anything industrial. What is is quite saddening is the amount that appear to have been dropped on schools and churches.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom