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Isabel H
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Re: BOMBING
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 27 October 09 11:39 UTC (UK) » |
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I don't know much about it, but I do know bombs fell in the area around John Knox church, Mounthooly, and I believe houses in the Gilcomston area were also bomb-damaged.
There might be newspaper reports about it.
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MonicaLesl
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Re: BOMBING
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 27 October 09 12:38 UTC (UK) » |
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Hi McCubbin
Not sure if you are checking on specific addresses that may have been affected, but this post on another forum may be of interest:
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=17189
Monica 
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flst
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Re: BOMBING
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 27 October 09 14:48 UTC (UK) » |
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Hi,apparently Aberdeen had more air raids than anywhere else in Scotland. Many buildings were destroyed & 250 civilians were killed. Are you interested in anywhere specific ?
flst
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leighton
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Re: BOMBING
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 27 October 09 15:07 UTC (UK) » |
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Hello McCubbin
There are a couple of books about the war years in Aberdeen that include many pictures of bomb damage in Aberdeen and the North East of Scotland.
Aberdeen at War - A Pictorial Account 1939-45
Lomond Books
Aberdeen & the North East at War
The Press & Journal.
leighton
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alexena
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Re: BOMBING
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 27 October 09 18:31 UTC (UK) » |
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Hi McCubbin,
There were 30 attacks on Aberdeen, 178 people killed and 599 buildings rendered uninhabitable. The biggest raid was on the 21st April 1943, when 98 people died and 93 were seriously injured.
Alexena
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Campbell, Phimister, Thain - Findochty, Banffshire
Smith(Bo), Bain, Imlach - Portessie, Banffshire
Phimister - Caithness
Robertson, MacPherson - Sleat, Skye
MacLennan - Ross & Cromarty
Mackintosh, Shaw - Inverness
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Aberdeen Archives
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Re: BOMBING
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 28 October 09 14:21 UTC (UK) » |
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The Royal Mental Hospital (now Cornhill) was extensively damaged, but I can't find anything about an orphanage being hit. Middlefield School was badly damaged as well.
There is a book called 'Far Wis Ye Fin the Sireen Blew?' which is part of an oral history project on Aberdeen during WWII. It may be available through inter-library loan if you don't live in Aberdeen, as I think it may be out of print unfortunately.
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