Born Hunter 17,831 Posted May 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 Nice find BH. I've just seen the one that left shrapnel marks in the back of my old house. I'd love to see a similar map for the whole of the UK, including plane crash sites too. I live in Bomber country so be of more interest to me really. Still, quite amazing (if that's the appropriate word?) to see the devastation that London suffered over the period of a year. As you say we are in bomber country ...I had a ride out out on the bike and went through screveton there's a memorial there also huge figures in the fields and quite a story behind them worth a look if you haven't seen it already I'm fairly familiar with that area, you talking about those scultped bushes on the Flintham road? Air fields all over the place round this country! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tandors 888 Posted May 10, 2016 Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 Over 90% of houses in hull suffered bomb damage, my grandads sister, her husband and 5 year old son were killed in the hull blitz. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kanny 20,932 Posted May 10, 2016 Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 Nice find BH. I've just seen the one that left shrapnel marks in the back of my old house. I'd love to see a similar map for the whole of the UK, including plane crash sites too. I live in Bomber country so be of more interest to me really. Still, quite amazing (if that's the appropriate word?) to see the devastation that London suffered over the period of a year. As you say we are in bomber country ...I had a ride out out on the bike and went through screveton there's a memorial there also huge figures in the fields and quite a story behind them worth a look if you haven't seen it already I'm fairly familiar with that area, you talking about those scultped bushes on the Flintham road?Air fields all over the place round this country! That's the one http://en.tracesofwar.com/article/21027/Memorial-Aircraft-Collission-Screveton.htm Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Born Hunter 17,831 Posted May 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 Nice find BH. I've just seen the one that left shrapnel marks in the back of my old house. I'd love to see a similar map for the whole of the UK, including plane crash sites too. I live in Bomber country so be of more interest to me really. Still, quite amazing (if that's the appropriate word?) to see the devastation that London suffered over the period of a year. As you say we are in bomber country ...I had a ride out out on the bike and went through screveton there's a memorial there also huge figures in the fields and quite a story behind them worth a look if you haven't seen it already I'm fairly familiar with that area, you talking about those scultped bushes on the Flintham road?Air fields all over the place round this country! That's the one http://en.tracesofwar.com/article/21027/Memorial-Aircraft-Collission-Screveton.htm f**k me I've driven past that a thousand times! I love that area and the surrounding villages, so often take the scenic route while going about my life. Loads of history crammed into those villages! Elston hall was the home or Erasmus Darwin for example. I'll stop for a nosey this Saturday as I'm passing. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
keepitcovert 842 Posted May 10, 2016 Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 (edited) Following my earlier post about patrington a german plane attacked the searchlights at out newton from a height of 50ft and crashed killing the crew of the plane and leaving 2 unexploded 1000lb bombs for ordanance to dispose of unfortunately while defusing one it activated and while trying to escape it blew up killing 2 of the 3 man crew. Edited May 10, 2016 by keepitcovert Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kanny 20,932 Posted May 10, 2016 Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 (edited) Nice find BH. I've just seen the one that left shrapnel marks in the back of my old house. I'd love to see a similar map for the whole of the UK, including plane crash sites too. I live in Bomber country so be of more interest to me really. Still, quite amazing (if that's the appropriate word?) to see the devastation that London suffered over the period of a year. As you say we are in bomber country ...I had a ride out out on the bike and went through screveton there's a memorial there also huge figures in the fields and quite a story behind them worth a look if you haven't seen it already I'm fairly familiar with that area, you talking about those scultped bushes on the Flintham road?Air fields all over the place round this country! That's the one http://en.tracesofwar.com/article/21027/Memorial-Aircraft-Collission-Screveton.htm f**k me I've driven past that a thousand times! I love that area and the surrounding villages, so often take the scenic route while going about my life. Loads of history crammed into those villages! Elston hall was the home or Erasmus Darwin for example.I'll stop for a nosey this Saturday as I'm passing. i live not far from there and never knew it was there just never had any reason to go that route i found it totally by accident ...Elston hall was a maggot farm at one time my dad and his brother's worked there before starting there own farm . Edited May 10, 2016 by kanny Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DogFox123 1,379 Posted May 10, 2016 Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 For anyone interested I found this site that has mapped every bomb that hit London during WWII. http://bombsight.org/#10/51.5079/-0.0941 Absolutely unreal when you look at it. Strategic bombing! Just flatten everything! We weren't exactly strategic when we bombed the fcuk out of Dresden. This isn't a "oh look how evil they were to us" post. If you have a similar map for Dresden stick it up! And as a matter of fact Dresden was a Strategic bombing. The same as the Blitz. At least though Dresden had a tactical angle of being the Nazi's Industry capital! Nazi's industry capital? News to me that one. Why did it take us till the war was nearly over to realise this?We actually found a Bomb at Port Talbot working on the railway. It didn't take to the end of the war. It took to the end of the war for it to become a priority target for tactical as well as strategic reasons. Not having it mate. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Born Hunter 17,831 Posted May 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 Nice find BH. I've just seen the one that left shrapnel marks in the back of my old house. I'd love to see a similar map for the whole of the UK, including plane crash sites too. I live in Bomber country so be of more interest to me really. Still, quite amazing (if that's the appropriate word?) to see the devastation that London suffered over the period of a year. As you say we are in bomber country ...I had a ride out out on the bike and went through screveton there's a memorial there also huge figures in the fields and quite a story behind them worth a look if you haven't seen it already I'm fairly familiar with that area, you talking about those scultped bushes on the Flintham road?Air fields all over the place round this country! That's the one http://en.tracesofwar.com/article/21027/Memorial-Aircraft-Collission-Screveton.htm f**k me I've driven past that a thousand times! I love that area and the surrounding villages, so often take the scenic route while going about my life. Loads of history crammed into those villages! Elston hall was the home or Erasmus Darwin for example.I'll stop for a nosey this Saturday as I'm passing. i live not far from there and never knew it was there just never had any reason to go that route i found it totally by accident ...Elston hall was a maggot farm at one time my dad and his brother's worked there before starting there own farm . They don't by chance have the maggot farm in benno? You're thinking of Eden hall, the spa on the west side of the 46. Elston hall is actually in Elston village. Home of one of the world's revolutionary thinkers and now luxury terraced houses worth half a million each. LOL 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kanny 20,932 Posted May 10, 2016 Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 Nice find BH. I've just seen the one that left shrapnel marks in the back of my old house. I'd love to see a similar map for the whole of the UK, including plane crash sites too. I live in Bomber country so be of more interest to me really. Still, quite amazing (if that's the appropriate word?) to see the devastation that London suffered over the period of a year. As you say we are in bomber country ...I had a ride out out on the bike and went through screveton there's a memorial there also huge figures in the fields and quite a story behind them worth a look if you haven't seen it already I'm fairly familiar with that area, you talking about those scultped bushes on the Flintham road?Air fields all over the place round this country! That's the one http://en.tracesofwar.com/article/21027/Memorial-Aircraft-Collission-Screveton.htm f**k me I've driven past that a thousand times! I love that area and the surrounding villages, so often take the scenic route while going about my life. Loads of history crammed into those villages! Elston hall was the home or Erasmus Darwin for example.I'll stop for a nosey this Saturday as I'm passing. i live not far from there and never knew it was there just never had any reason to go that route i found it totally by accident ...Elston hall was a maggot farm at one time my dad and his brother's worked there before starting there own farm .They don't by chance have the maggot farm in benno?You're thinking of Eden hall, the spa on the west side of the 46. Elston hall is actually in Elston village. Home of one of the world's revolutionary thinkers and now luxury terraced houses worth half a million each. LOL PM inbound Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DIDO.1 22,847 Posted May 10, 2016 Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 A bomb landed 3 streets away from where my dad was born, blew all the windows out and a large vase of flowers fell from a shelf into my dad's pram....luckily my grandmother had put the pram hood up 2 mins before as he wouldn't sleep and she was trying to settle him down....the vase smashed on the hood right above his head. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pesky1972 5,364 Posted May 10, 2016 Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 It's hard to imagine what it must have been like during the blitz. It's easy to romanticise about WW2, the bulldog spirit and all that, but it must have been absolutely terrifying. Communities, where a lot of the men folk were already off fighting & dying, under a constant nightly bombardment. Hope we never see that on these shores again. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Born Hunter 17,831 Posted May 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 It's hard to imagine what it must have been like during the blitz. It's easy to romanticise about WW2, the bulldog spirit and all that, but it must have been absolutely terrifying. Communities, where a lot of the men folk were already off fighting & dying, under a constant nightly bombardment. Hope we never see that on these shores again. I sometimes think that when many of us today talk of how horrific the world is and modern conflict we forget the magnitude of the great wars. Total war on that scale makes modern conflicts look much less significant on the grand scale. Obviously for the individual soldier it's still life and death! But in their totality we live in very different times. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lenmcharristar 9,924 Posted May 10, 2016 Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 My granny was in the Belfast blitz and remembers it like yesterday, she lost a lot of friends during the air raids, she's now and was at the Belfast Blitz tea and dance last week lol, very fascinating subject, and very great full to those who died for us to be free today, just sad for the men and women who give their all to be thrown back in their faces by our cowardly leaders who cow tow to Angela merkel and the eu money racket Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TOMO 26,957 Posted May 10, 2016 Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 Nice find BH. I've just seen the one that left shrapnel marks in the back of my old house. I'd love to see a similar map for the whole of the UK, including plane crash sites too. I live in Bomber country so be of more interest to me really. Still, quite amazing (if that's the appropriate word?) to see the devastation that London suffered over the period of a year. As you say we are in bomber country ...I had a ride out out on the bike and went through screveton there's a memorial there also huge figures in the fields and quite a story behind them worth a look if you haven't seen it already A stones throw from me.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
keepitcovert 842 Posted May 10, 2016 Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 Just this week there has been a memorial service in Hull marking 75 years since the blitz on the city, Hull was never named in reports about the bombing it was always refered to as a north east coast town, yet it suffered some of the worst raids in 1941 most of the centre was flattened over 2 nights with over 400 killed in those 2 nights. Between Hull and the coast lies the village of patrington and on the marshland they dug out lakes in the same shape as the docks in Hull to fool the luftwaffe into bombing them instead of the real docks..There is still a bombed out cinema in hull which the council were talking of opening a museum about the blitz. They did similar in Germany, The Luftwaffe base at Gutersloh was designed so all the airfield could be flooded and made to look like a lake, it was not until someone got a picture of a cow standing in the middle of the lake that the deception was uncovered Trust the krauts to copy our best ideas, no originality that lot. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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