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Topic: Bombing raid on Boston 12 Sep 1940 (Read 2802 times)
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An65
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dnt know, but can say both Hall Hills (creosote factory) and Gypsy Bridge got bombed. My folks were alive then, tho small, see if I can find out anything for you.
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pamthomas
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Hi Roger,
My family (minus me, as I wasn't born until after the war  ) lived in the street, and I've phoned Uncle who says he can't remember any bomb in WWR.
He can remember the one that landed outside Cammacks.
And he was nearly late for work the day one landed at the top of Licquorpond Street. The sirens didn't have much effect on him getting out of bed but the bang as the bomb exploded soon had him shooting down the stairs.
He was also firewatching in West Street one night when the Germans dropped a flare which lit up the whole sky like daylight. I understood that to be the night bombs were dropped near the dock. Some (one?) hit the power cables on the opposite bank to St Nicks church. Others landed in Scotney's fields, and as Martin Middlebrook says, some of them went so deeply into the soil that they're still there. And to think that my parents used to take me picnicking in those fields.  Such little regard for my welfare.
Hm, although I'd looked at the map (I also have the book) before I phoned Uncle, I completely forgot to ask him about the HE bombs dropped near the Rope Walk, between the bank and the top of Marsh Lane, and a bit further down the Low Road, about three weeks earlier than the one in WWR. Will try to remember to phone him back over the weekend.
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An65
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mum doesnt remember any bomb in WWR, but can add one on Penn St.
She says The Liquorpond St bomb would have the one that hit the bakery, "Lovelys", and two of the girls of this family were killed in their beds. This is probably the bomb that literally moved the pub in West St - memory isnt what it used to be they cant remember pub name but think its the Royal George.
Apparently there was a searchlight station out WWR way, perhaps thats where the confusion comes from?
Hope that helps.
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pamthomas
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I've never studied the pub sign but the pub was the Royal George.
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An65
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An65
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glad to hear the Lovely girls situation lived on. Apparently they wouldnt go into the shelter, and got a direct hit (or near enough).
Not sure abt Baptist Church, do know that there is or was a burial Grd on Sleaford Rd somewhere, where my grt aunt Bertha Howard was buried. It may or may not involve this baptist church.
Mum says there was def a searchlight station out Wyberton way, she lived in Ingelow at the time, but a mate of hers Joan lived down Wyberton WR way, and she says if it wasnt on WWR it was in the fields behind it somewhere, cos she used to see the light while she saw her mate home.
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Graham Whitehead
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I was interested to read of the Bombing raid on Boston in Sept 1940 because my mother, brother and I experienced one on a visit to my great-aunt in Grantham sometime after the November 1940 raid on Coventry. Escaping from bomb-torn Coventry by bus to stay in Grantham, on alighting with the pushchair[modern baby buggy]( with me inside) and my elder brother aged seven my mother rushed the short distance under the railway viaduct at the town end of Harlaxton Road to nearby Rutland St where my gt-aunts were sheltering from the raid in their cellar. Frantic knocking on the door was at first ignored as it was thought to be shrapnel. There was a train waiting to go into Grantham station and the German fighter was firing at it presumably on the way back from a raid of the Lincs airfields. If anyone can confirm this Grantham raid I would be very pleased to know.
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Warwicks: Whitehead, Allcock, Atkins, Bayley, Beacham, Bilson, Brooks, Cleaver,Farmer,Gilks, Lucas, Kendall, Oliver, Pickard, Shilton, Underhill.
Lincs: Kendall, Clark, Morley,Vincent, Withers, Barlow,Dawson.
Leics. Vincent
Notts: Bardill, Bugg, Morley, Winfield
Dublin: Brooks, Flood.
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tup1
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Hi
I have a book titled GRANTHAM.THE WAR YEARS 1939-1945 A PICTORIAL INSIGHT.Author Malcolm Knapp.Sadly is now out of print but Grantham Library and Lincoln Archives have copies.There are lots of photos in it taken throughout the war years by local photographer Walter Lee.
On the 23 October 1940 it mentions a raid that hit South Parade/Albert Street and Spittlegate Bridge one man was killed and 9 injured.It was this raid that very nearly blocked both the main road and the main railway line between London and the North.
Also on the 3rd December 1940 there was a raid on B.MARCO and the railway station.One bomb near to the station and on LNER property failed to explode and bomb disposal were called in and tragically exploded the next afternoon 4th december and killed Lt Gilkes the officer working on it.So Graham I think this is the raid you are talking about when you came to Grantham.
Kathy
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