memory tricks

[LDaw]

I know our memories can play tricks on us so I'm checking for evidence to back up a relative's recollections.

These particular memories relate to World War 2 and Lincoln.

Was there a convalescent home for servicemen in Lincoln?

Was there a munitions' factory in Lincoln?  (I've only found reference to 20 around the country and none are close to Lincoln.)

Were there any incidents that led to a group of schoolgirls being killed (10+, due to a bomb dropping?).

I've been trawling through the newspaper archives and haven't found anything that fits in with the recollection.

Thanks

[ColC]

The factory & the bombs

https://www.lincstothepast.com/exhibitions/lincolnshire-at-war/world-war-2-civilian-casualties-in-lincolnshire/

Colin

[LDaw]

I did find that article but the Lincoln factory mentioned was for armoured vehicles and the bombing was Grantham.

Thanks anyway.


I also forgot to include the following in my original post -

Were Anderson shelters or those steel table shelters common in Lincoln city?  (Another relative lived in the city and has no recollection of anyone she knew having either.)

[Jebber]

Were Anderson shelters or those steel table shelters common in Lincoln city?  (Another relative lived in the city and has no recollection of anyone she knew having either.)

I can’t say with certainty but I think they were both quite common everywhere. The second shelters you describe were Morrison shelters.

[ray b]

hi
there was a munitions store on a lake bed that had been drained it is now refilled at the end of the city Newark end it is now a park.
rayb

[a-l]

Yes Anderson shelters were used in Lincoln . I knew someone who used theirs as a shed until the 80's when it was dismantled. Not everyone had one though.

[a-l]

I have never heard of a munitions factory here, only heavy armour.
Neither have I heard of an incident concerning schoolgirls. It could have happened , I just haven't heard it.
There was a German plane that came down next to a girl's school but nobody at the school was hurt.
The boys school on Wragby Rd became a hospital , maybe that could be your convalescent home ?

[greyingrey]

There was a convalescent home. I only know because they talked about it on one of those antique programmes on the BBC. Sorry I can't remember any more
 

[larkspur]

https://www.christs-hospital.lincs.sch.uk/joomla35/index.php/our-school/lchs-history/school-archive/132-item-of-interest-19-the-hampton-bomber-crash-in-july-1941

https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/lincoln-news/ten-killed-three-seriously-injured-1210601

Could the convalescent home have been Nocton Hall.