London Blitz 1940 Map

[ianrauk]

Here's a link to the map of the first nights Blitz over London in 1940. Listing and marking all the bombs that fell that night.

Very interesting seeing where and what damage was inflicted.
Can imagine a few Londoners on this forum currently live/close to where damage was inflicted..

 

[Globalti]

The nearest I can come to the terror was when friends of mine were very close to the main armoury in Lagos about 10 years ago when an entire arsenal of bombs and ammunition dating from the Biafran war suddenly blew up. Many people drowned trying to cross a canal in panic and the damage was amazing, they described it as probably the nearest anybody could ever come in modern times to the Blitz. Their account was impressive to read, especially when they wrote about the shockwaves and the windows smashing.

 

[taxing]

Hull was the second most bombed city in the Blitz, after London, and there's a bomb map here. I've looked at it before with my stepdad, because he was a kid during the war and was evacuated to a horrible old woman, so he and his brother came back to the city and he remembers a lot of it. There was a house bombed on the next street to mine and it was never rebuilt, so the chimney is still stuck on to the adjoining house and there are scorch marks on the wall.

 

[gaz]

It's a shame it doesn't show most of Croydon, a lot of it was bombed due to croydon airport that was the main airport for central london at the time. In Lloyd park, near to where i live, the playground is built in a bomb crater with a quite impressive slide.

 

[Maz]

Hull was the second most bombed city in the Blitz, after London, and there's a bomb map here. I've looked at it before with my stepdad, because he was a kid during the war and was evacuated to a horrible old woman, so he and his brother came back to the city and he remembers a lot of it. There was a house bombed on the next street to mine and it was never rebuilt, so the chimney is still stuck on to the adjoining house and there are scorch marks on the wall.

Ooh, the street where I lived got hit!

 

[taxing]

My last two streets got hit, and my primary school too! Fun stuff, these maps.

 

[Maz]

My last two streets got hit, and my primary school too! Fun stuff, these maps.

I see a trend developing. I'd move house again, if I were you.

 

[Globalti]

Any chance we could ask the Luftwaffe to nip over and finish the job with Burnley?

 

[Aperitif]

It's a shame it doesn't show most of Croydon, a lot of it was bombed due to croydon airport that was the main airport for central london at the time. In Lloyd park, near to where i live, the playground is built in a bomb crater with a quite impressive slide.

When do you reckon Croydon is going to be rebuilt, Gaz?

About 73 days consecutive bombing...and my parents used to talk of the V bombs too. Not the 'cruising' noise of them - just when they didn't make any more noise...it meant an impending impact.

 

[Paulus]

It would of been around this time in 1940 that my grandad, my dads dad, died on the railway embankment in New Southgate by The Standard Telephone factory when a german bomb blew up the railway bridge. He was clearing the line when he had a heart attack and died there. My primary school was fifty yards away from that spot which I attended in 1962.

 

[surfgurl]

It would of been around this time in 1940 that my grandad, my dads dad, died on the railway embankment in New Southgate by The Standard Telephone factory when a german bomb blew up the railway bridge. He was clearing the line when he had a heart attack and died there. My primary school was fifty yards away from that spot which I attended in 1962.

Have a look on this site

STC

It gives an account of the V1 hitting the standard telecom site. There might be an account of the bomb you refer to as well.
My Grandmother and lots of relatives worked there during the war. I remember being told of two Aunts who just managed to get through the door out of the stairwell.
I also remember being told of the direct hit on the house three doors down from my Grandmother's house. A couple of relatives were trapped for hours as all the doors had jammed into place with the force of the blast.

 

[Paulus]

Thanks for the link, but it was not the V1, it was definately 1940 as my grandad died 4 years before my Dad went to war on D-Day.

 

[ChrisKH]

Both my parents were too young to serve, though my grandfather did. My childhood was filled with stories of the blitz, esp. on my mother's side as she had six siblings and they were evacuated to Newmarket. They eventually come back after six months despite the risks. I recall being told by my mother that they used to run onto the fields to collect the strips of foil that were dropped from bombers to jam the radar and my grandmother telling me about returning to the house after one raid. The house next door was ablaze but there's was still standing. Inside, the dog was warming himself next to a blazing fire, which was odd, as they didn't have any coal. Sounds unlikely, but she said an incendiary bomb had gone down the chimney and was on fire in the grate. The house is still standing to this day.

 

[wafflycat]

Mr WC had his childhood in Peckham. He played on bombsites, as did most kids of that era.

 

[Paulus]

Me and my friends used to play in and around the bomb holes nearby to the STC, many of them by the early 60's had turned into ponds and they were full of wildlife. We used to spend many days over the "dump" as we called it.