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| Author: | tiger2000 [ Thu May 05, 2011 9:57 am ] | ||||
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| Author: | muddyboots [ Thu May 05, 2011 12:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hull Blitz - 70th Anniversary |
my wife's father lost both his parents to these bombings. we have previously spent hours together going through the bomb damage maps and lists of the deceased and found nothing. |
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| Author: | Sandro II Terrorista [ Thu May 05, 2011 12:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hull Blitz - 70th Anniversary |
I can still remember there being bomb sites when I was a kid in the early eighties, i think there was one just across from the New Theatre. My grandma and uncle were both evacuated to Doncaster (Doncaster? Hardly The Cotwold's with John Thaw was it! ) and my granddad who was in the Parachute Regiment (I think, might have been something else) was brought back to drive a fire engine on the docks as he had an in depth knowledge of them having worked there since a nipper and could find his way around in the dark. |
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| Author: | barton baird [ Thu May 05, 2011 4:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hull Blitz - 70th Anniversary |
Apparantly the Germans used Grimsby`s dock tower as a marker for flying in.So I read somewhere. (There is no truth in the rumour it had a big lit arrow on it.) [Sorry to be flippant about such a serious thing,but sometimes things do need lightening a bit.] |
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| Author: | Captain Dave [ Thu May 05, 2011 7:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hull Blitz - 70th Anniversary |
I seem to remember somewhere that James Reckitt Avenue was the most bombed thoroughfare in the City. A couple of my older neighbours from Garden Village told me about damage in that area and the barrage balloon on ' balloon field'. There are quite a few photographs of the bombing of the city at Eden Camp near Malton. |
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| Author: | cab man [ Thu May 05, 2011 7:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hull Blitz - 70th Anniversary |
I'm not having you sully this thread. Please show some respect for once-RW |
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| Author: | barham red [ Fri May 06, 2011 7:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hull Blitz - 70th Anniversary |
Captain Dave wrote:I seem to remember somewhere that James Reckitt Avenue was the most bombed thoroughfare in the City. A couple of my older neighbours from Garden Village told me about damage in that area and the barrage balloon on ' balloon field'. There are quite a few photographs of the bombing of the city at Eden Camp near Malton. The railway ran right along the back of it so no doubt they were targetting the supply routes. Certainly makes you glad you were born in this age and not have to go through that kind of nightmare. |
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| Author: | cod'ead [ Fri May 06, 2011 9:26 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hull Blitz - 70th Anniversary |
A few years ago I returned to Hull to do some research on Jack Harrison and rugby league during the war years (WW1 & WW2). It seemed barmy but because of wartime reporting restrictions, even the HDM couldn't identify the city by name. Front page photographs of bomb-damaged local landmarks were described as a North East town |
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| Author: | muddyboots [ Fri May 06, 2011 11:31 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hull Blitz - 70th Anniversary |
Tonight's Mail is doing a special 8 page supplement. |
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| Author: | Ducatiman [ Fri May 06, 2011 8:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hull Blitz - 70th Anniversary |
A couple of weeks ago, we marked the blitz of Plymouth down here. Two great cities united by a common - though horrific -experience. Both survived and have grown and thrived. I'm sure the people of Plymouth wouldn't object to me passing on their good wishes to the great people of Hull. The really sad thing is that there's no guarantee it won't ever happen again. You do wonder about mankind sometimes. |
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