Joined: Mar 22 2004 Posts: 2777 Location: Staffordshire & East Hull
Sorry if this is off topic, but I thougt it be apporopiate to post it here rather then in the chat thread, please feel free to move it if necessary. This week it is 70 Years since the height of the Hull Blitz, both my parents lived throug the raids on the city, my dad in High Street in the Old Town and my mother down Hessle Road, after hearing their stories of their houses being destroyed and friends and reletives being made homeless and even killed, I apprecieate even more the sacrifices made my them and their generation to enable me and my family to live the free and reletivly free from violence life I live today.
The BBC's website has posted a few pieces on the blitz in Hull as part of their commemeration. Some of the statistics about the raids are staggering, 86,000 homes damaged, 125,000 prople made homeless or displaced and over 1,200 citizens killed.
Sorry if this is off topic, but I thougt it be apporopiate to post it here rather then in the chat thread, please feel free to move it if necessary. This week it is 70 Years since the height of the Hull Blitz, both my parents lived throug the raids on the city, my dad in High Street in the Old Town and my mother down Hessle Road, after hearing their stories of their houses being destroyed and friends and reletives being made homeless and even killed, I apprecieate even more the sacrifices made my them and their generation to enable me and my family to live the free and reletivly free from violence life I live today.
The BBC's website has posted a few pieces on the blitz in Hull as part of their commemeration. Some of the statistics about the raids are staggering, 86,000 homes damaged, 125,000 prople made homeless or displaced and over 1,200 citizens killed.
Joined: Dec 01 2004 Posts: 1476 Location: west side
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.
Joined: Jan 15 2007 Posts: 11924 Location: Secret Hill Top Lair. V.2
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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Joined: Jun 11 2007 Posts: 12260 Location: south of Hull.
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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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.
Joined: May 25 2002 Posts: 37704 Location: Zummerzet, where the zoider apples grow
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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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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