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Title: Interactive map of London Bomb Census 1940-41
Post by: PrueM on Thursday 06 December 12 08:31 GMT (UK)
http://bombsight.org/about/

I've just come across this site - might be of interest to those of you with ancestors in London during the Blitz :)
Title: Re: Interactive map of London Bomb Census 1940-41
Post by: dawnsh on Thursday 06 December 12 10:07 GMT (UK)
Hi Prue

Thanks for the link.

For those able to visit, the London Metropolitan Archives has a set of bomb damage maps on open access in the reading room and they are really interesting to look at.

Dawn
Title: Re: Interactive map of London Bomb Census 1940-41
Post by: PrueM on Thursday 06 December 12 10:17 GMT (UK)
20 years ago I worked for a while at the University of London in 28 Russell Square. The top floor, which I worked on, was really wavy and the story I was told it was because the building had been damaged by bombing - I see from the map that several bombs fell very close to that spot. Nice to have confirmation after all these years :)
Title: Re: Interactive map of London Bomb Census 1940-41
Post by: jc26red on Thursday 06 December 12 10:44 GMT (UK)
Thanks for the link Pru, very interesting map if you have London ancestors.

I did wonder whether my OH's uncle's house in Fulham had been bombed as it was the only one in the road that had been demolished.... now I know it wasn't, the nearest bomb was a couple of streets away. And of course that has now reopened the old question, why only that house in a road of beautifully maintained Victorian houses  :-\

The map ends one mile east of where I grew up, and misses the bomb which my dad said fell in the field behind our house... never mind,  I have loads of East End addresses to check  :D
Title: WWII London Bomb Sites
Post by: bishenbertie on Friday 07 December 12 04:34 GMT (UK)
Hope you find this site useful.

http://bombsight.org/#15/51.5050/-0.0900
Title: Re: WWII London Bomb Sites
Post by: Ruskie on Friday 07 December 12 05:10 GMT (UK)
 :o

Wow! Thanks so much for posting this -it's fascinating!
Title: Re: WWII London Bomb Sites
Post by: Wiggy on Friday 07 December 12 05:24 GMT (UK)
It is a wonder anyone survived when you see something like that! 

Very interesting!
Title: WW2 bombs dropped on London
Post by: Lydart on Friday 07 December 12 10:25 GMT (UK)
This is interesting .... and shows how devastating it was for Londoners !

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20637222#



(I can't get their link to work .... )
Title: Re: WW2 bombs dropped on London
Post by: nanny jan on Friday 07 December 12 10:48 GMT (UK)
Hi Lydart,

Think this is the link:


http://bombsight.org/#15/51.5050/-0.0900



Nanny Jan
Title: Re: WWII London Bomb Sites
Post by: roopat on Friday 07 December 12 11:46 GMT (UK)
Fascinating  :)  I was able to see the exact location of the one which fell in Chelsea where my grandmother was 'bombed out'. Growing up in that area like all of my generation I was used to seeing all the 'bomb sites' and just took them for granted.

I did have a bit of trouble with the site as when I zoomed in all the red dots vanished .....  ??? probably my computer connection, will try again later.
Title: Re: WWII London Bomb Sites
Post by: toni* on Friday 07 December 12 12:10 GMT (UK)
OMgosh there are so many and so close together
Title: Re: Interactive map of London Bomb Census 1940-41
Post by: jess5athome on Friday 07 December 12 13:30 GMT (UK)
WOW !!. So much damage in such a concentrated area, it must have been a living nightmare.
Title: Re: Interactive map of London Bomb Census 1940-41
Post by: millymcb on Friday 07 December 12 13:55 GMT (UK)
Amazing to see all those red dots.... if you zoom out you just see London covered in one huge mass of red..

It is hard to imagine now what it must have been like to live through that

Milly
Title: Re: Interactive map of London Bomb Census 1940-41
Post by: GrahamSimons on Friday 07 December 12 19:20 GMT (UK)
Looking forward to using the Android app when I'm next in London - looks to be even better than the website in many ways..... http://bombsight.org/androidapp/
Title: Re: Interactive map of London Bomb Census 1940-41
Post by: groom on Friday 07 December 12 19:33 GMT (UK)
Very interesting map, I can see several fell near where my grandparents lived. What is noticeable is how many fell in straight lines where they were trying to bomb the railway.
Title: Re: Interactive map of London Bomb Census 1940-41
Post by: Redroger on Friday 07 December 12 19:39 GMT (UK)
I am looking for Alfred Road Belvedere, our daughter bought a house there and there was a gap in the houses which I thought might have been caused by a bomb. I keep getting retry for a live version. Can anyone confirm this is because the site is busy?
Title: Re: Interactive map of London Bomb Census 1940-41
Post by: groom on Friday 07 December 12 19:59 GMT (UK)
I cant get the search facility to work either.

Looking for it on the map though it doesn't look as if any fell on Alfred Road.
Title: Re: Interactive map of London Bomb Census 1940-41
Post by: Lydart on Friday 07 December 12 20:39 GMT (UK)
I've just found one that dropped almost next to where my grandparents were living, Peabody Gardens, Hammersmith.   And I've got a newspaper cutting all about it which they saved !   A screen shot of the site to add to my FH files !
Title: Re: Interactive map of London Bomb Census 1940-41
Post by: roopat on Monday 10 December 12 16:40 GMT (UK)
I can't get the interactive map to work at all now, at least first time round I could briefly read the info box for the spot I was interested in before the spots vanished   :(
Anyone else having trouble? Any ideas how to contact the website to tell them if it doesn't work?
Pat
Title: London map showing where bombs landed during the Blitz
Post by: Jane Masri on Monday 10 December 12 16:56 GMT (UK)
Very interesting

http://bombsight.org/#15/51.5050/-0.0900

Jane
Title: Re: Interactive map of London Bomb Census 1940-41
Post by: Redroger on Tuesday 11 December 12 15:35 GMT (UK)
Has anything been published regarding later raids?
Title: Re: Interactive map of London Bomb Census 1940-41
Post by: Ruskie on Wednesday 12 December 12 05:18 GMT (UK)
Has anything been published regarding later raids?

I was wondering this too. I know of some bombs dropped in E London not marked on the above map, which led me to question it's accuracy, until I noticed the dates covered.
Title: Re: Interactive map of London Bomb Census 1940-41
Post by: lyn22 on Wednesday 12 December 12 05:49 GMT (UK)
Thankyou for sharing this so many bombs it must have been so frightening for the people  :(
Title: Re: Interactive map of London Bomb Census 1940-41
Post by: joboy on Wednesday 12 December 12 06:07 GMT (UK)
I find that the actual bomb hits are shown on a modern day map.
When I searched for Delamere Crescent W2 which suffered two HE bombs in May 1941 the place was not shown because of redevelopment in that area which occurred in 1962.
Pity that ...... I found no indication that a modern day map was being used.
Joe
Title: Re: Interactive map of London Bomb Census 1940-41
Post by: Ringrose on Wednesday 12 December 12 09:40 GMT (UK)
I was brought up in Kew ,Burlington Ave which is very near the Archives.in the next road Beechwood Avenue a bomb flattened a house which was diagonally opposite us.The damage to our house was minimal.....a bedroom window fell in,kitchen ceiling fell down and the back door blew fromitshinges.I would have been about 3 at the time....so lucky it wasn't us.
Ringrose
Title: Re: Interactive map of London Bomb Census 1940-41
Post by: JenB on Wednesday 12 December 12 09:44 GMT (UK)
I find that the actual bomb hits are shown on a modern day map.
When I searched for Delamere Crescent W2 which suffered two HE bombs in May 1941 the place was not shown because of redevelopment in that area which occurred in 1962.
Pity that ...... I found no indication that a modern day map was being used.

MY husband made the same observation - his family lived in Camden Town during the war, He looked for road names that he knows were there during this period and also after the war, to find that they are not shown on the map at all.
Title: Just sharing info
Post by: Sharon Romany on Wednesday 12 December 12 11:04 GMT (UK)
Hi all not sure if info already spoken of on here but I have just discovered by chance a site called BOMB SITE mapping the ww2 bomb census, it explores the London blitz during 7th 1940 to 6th June 1941 very interesting and worth a look it also shows some old photographs.

Sharon Romany

www.bombsite.org/explore/

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Title: Re: Interactive map of London Bomb Census 1940-41
Post by: Newfloridian on Saturday 22 December 12 15:26 GMT (UK)
I find that the actual bomb hits are shown on a modern day map.
When I searched for Delamere Crescent W2 which suffered two HE bombs in May 1941 the place was not shown because of redevelopment in that area which occurred in 1962.
Pity that ...... I found no indication that a modern day map was being used.
Joe

Joe and I have been liaising on the story around and behind this particular bombing. The whole of Paddington between the GW railway and the Paddington canal was demolished, redeveloped and rebuilt in the 1960s and 1970s. However if you overlay a copy of the 1914 OS map for Paddington  you can see quite clearly where Delamere Crescent was. We know exactly which houses took the direct hits - and these do not correspond with the sites indicated on the Interactive maps. The bomb sites are reported as "Close to ..."

However, in their defence, the site does say that "The National Archives give no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for purpose of the information provided". Maybe, in due course, the administrators of Bomb Site will allow people with definitive information to correct - or at least annotate - such errors and / or omissions

Alan