DetectingWales.com

An interesting website that shows the location of almost every bomb that dropped on London, during the blitz

absolutely fascinating

http://bombsight.org/#13/51.5193/-0.1120 (http://bombsight.org/#13/51.5193/-0.1120)

enjoy

I remember it well and I dont think this map includes the firebombs that set houses and streets ablaze. :(  Jerry.

Probably not, but as a piece of digital mapping ... its a superb resouce.  I've just tried using the different layers in the top right ..... it's a useful tool.

When you see it like that it brings it home to you how dreadfully frightening it must have been when the residents heard the air raid sirens sounding. Hardly surprising the children all got sent off to the countryside.

It is not accurate.
Both my mother and my father were young teenagers in London during the blitz. Both had their houses destroyed by bombs that are not marked on the map.
I have looked at the map with my father who remembers where other bombs landed and they are not on there.
In the late 1950s there was still some bomb sites around and as a young lad I played on them. They are not on the map.
There are also bombs marked on the map that did not land where the map shows.

thanks landyman for that input... i doubt if it was possible to log every single bomb dropped, but if the site shows just a fraction of the true amount then it gives one a serious impression of the devastation wrecked and what the locals endured during that time.

It begs the question as to how would we have coped today?   

London was badly hit, but imagine how the poor souls in Berlin must have suffered towards the end of the war. They had to endure incessant bombing raids night after night, with parts of Berlin being almost razed to the ground. Thankfully we were on the winning side.
 

indeed

i know that at onetime there was a swansea history web site that logged every single bomb dropped onto the city and the devastation it caused.   

i know, from talking to my mum, that all the bristol channel ports were hit at one time or another, ,,,, are there similar sites for cardiff, newport, neath, port talbot, ?   

cheers

I think Alan you did post something previously about the Swansea website. I remember it because one of the entries logged that 2 rabbits (I think?) were killed. It was commented at the time about how in depth the recording was. Two other Uk cities that got hammered also were Plymouth and Coventry.

London was bombed from September 1940 till May 1941.It started with 57 consecutive nights of bombing.
Then later came the v1 and v2 rockets.
More than one million London houses were destroyed or damaged and over 20,000 killed.

My ex farther in law was evacuated  from his home in Wimbledon and sent to live with his aunt in Plymouth :D :D not the best move, He always thought Hitler had it in for him lol
A bomb dropped up above Cwmbran and killed a cow..OK it's hardly Dresden but it was big news for Cwmbran lol

We were in the Morrison air raid shelter and the ARP and firemen were knocking hell out of the front door.

A firebomb entered my back bedroom and the upstairs of the house was on fire.

A neighbour put us up for a few days while temporary repairs took place.

In those days folks stood together and shared whatever was available.  ;) :)  Jerry.

It's amazing just how many places were bombed along the Somerset coast many of these weren't intended but were the result of failed raids on Cardiff, Swansea, Newport etc and the bombers just jettisoned over the channel to get more speed and get home, I remember my mother telling me that you could always tell which way the bombers were going by the speed of the drone of their engines.

yes Geoff, and my mum often says that the bristol channel ports were also secondary targets for any failed raids on Liverpool, Manchester, Midlands, etc

Cardiffian ... what a good memory you have. Unfortunately the website was taken down and moved to another server. It appears that the site name has been given up and has now been bought by another group.

however i have come across this little gem of peoples memories of the swansea blitz
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/history/sites/themes/periods/ww2_swansea_blitz.shtml (http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/history/sites/themes/periods/ww2_swansea_blitz.shtml)

http://ww2today.com/20th-february-1941-more-heavy-bombing-of-swansea (http://ww2today.com/20th-february-1941-more-heavy-bombing-of-swansea)

cheers

Some vey poignant accounts of those Swansea air raids Alan. I went into Swansea last week. I told my other half that she would not see many old buildings because the centre was almost obliterated during the war. A shame really.

This site mentions the rabbits and also shows how wide ranging, geographically, the bombing in South Wales was.

http://www.islandfarm.fsnet.co.uk/Luftwaffe%20Attacks%20On%20South%20Wales.htm (http://www.islandfarm.fsnet.co.uk/Luftwaffe%20Attacks%20On%20South%20Wales.htm)

Well found Geoff. I am sure that is the site that Alan posted on here previously. Very in depth recording indeed. It is very interesting reading but very sad as well, when you consider the main statistics are the loss of peoples lives.

well found Geoff. Thats the information, i posted a few years ago ....

it's a great piece of data to analyse