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I believe the station throat was badly damaged. Repaired and running again within a day or so - or so I have read. I don't know if true or not.
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It is interesting that whilst now there is a lot of historical coverage of the world wars in my youth they were not much mentioned.
Hartlepool was the first place to be attacked in the first world war, and there was a small plaque on the sea wall to mention this.
I really do not wish to disparage the good people of Pools - but this may have been because of panic and defeatism at the time, about which they were ashamed later? A friend of mine from near Coventry told me that many there were fleeing the city scared stiff after the big raid in November 1940 - and defeatism was common in the immediate aftermath. Churchill then visited and stiffened resistance.- When I was young there there must have been many people who were alive and remembered the bombardment but it was never mentioned, and although I lived there I only discovered the detailed history much later. I don't think that we were even told about it at school, although the site of the first hit was visible through the window.
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I believe the station throat was badly damaged. Repaired and running again within a day or so - or so I have read. I don't know if true or not.
Henry Smith's, but not until the 60s.Do you mean the first place on the UK mainland? I didn't know that.
It was also hit in a Zeppelin raid in 1916 (?). That hit the football ground - which is, of course, very near the railway and loco sheds. i don't know if the Zeppelin raid also hit railway property or not.
I really do not wish to disparage the good people of Pools - but this may have been because of panic and defeatism at the time, about which they were ashamed later? A friend of mine from near Coventry told me that many there were fleeing the city scared stiff after the big raid in November 1940 - and defeatism was common in the immediate aftermath. Churchill then visited and stiffened resistance.
Which school did you go to? My dad went to Henry Smiths in the 1920s.
(Bear in mind. You had to do 30 operations. There was a 1 in 7 chance of not coming back each operation. Do the maths. He as 19 at the time. He escaped doing another tour because the was ended in the far east when the US dropped the A bombs.)
The odds of surviving were horrible, but they weren't as bad as 1 in 7 for each operation for 30 mission tour of duty.
https://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/commandlosses.html says that at bad times, 25% of the airmen made it through a 30 mission tour of duty. That corresponds to a loss rate of 4.5% of airmen on each operation. For another group there was a loss rate of 6.05% on each operation, which ended up with 16% making it to the end of a tour of duty.
If there was a 1 in 7 chance (14%) of not coming back from each flight, then there is a 6 in 7 chance of coming back. To get the chance of coming back from 30 operations you would multiply (6/7) by itself 30 times, which would would give less than a 1% chance of making it through a tour.
Canada Dock station was damaged in WW2 and never reopened to passengers, but freight remained until (I think) the early 1960s.
The (Bootle / Docks) branch from Edge Hill split at Atlantic Dock Jn, one limb serving Canada Dock, the other Atlantic Dock (in Bootle). Both once had regular interval passenger services, but these could not compete with more direct tram / bus routes to the city centre. A sparse passenger service to Alexander Dock survived for a few more years, and that line remains open for freight serving Liverpool Biomass Terminal & Seaforth.
The raid on Hartlepool was on 16th December 1914, on the same day as attacks on Whitby and Scarborough, although Hartlepool was the most strategic target.Do you mean the first place on the UK mainland? I didn't know that.
It was also hit in a Zeppelin raid in 1916 (?). That hit the football ground - which is, of course, very near the railway and loco sheds. i don't know if the Zeppelin raid also hit railway property or not.
I really do not wish to disparage the good people of Pools - but this may have been because of panic and defeatism at the time, about which they were ashamed later? A friend of mine from near Coventry told me that many there were fleeing the city scared stiff after the big raid in November 1940 - and defeatism was common in the immediate aftermath. Churchill then visited and stiffened resistance.
Which school did you go to? My dad went to Henry Smiths in the 1920s.
Yes, as I posted somewhere on the previous page. Not surprising as the main centre for aircraft engine production.Wasn't Derby bombed?
Kings Cross , St Pancras , Paddington and Moorgate (LT) had heavy damage. Ditto Portsmouth and Southsea , Cannon Street , Blackfriars and of course the approaches to Waterloo (Main) had a large number of bombs on the approach tracks.
Funnily enough - St Albans had a "good war" - bomb wise , with no known impact on the MML north of Hendon.
Dad was in 101 sq. they carries air bourne cigar equipment and and extra crew member -which is what Dad did. This was for jamming german fighter radio. High powered radio transmitters were detectable by the Germans, so losses were higher.
some horrible ones on the Underground. There was the bank one where 51 people died. The bomb penetrated through into the underground booking hall, then went down an escalator shaft before exploding, causing a general collapse of the road above. Many were sheltering from the bombing.
And Sloane Square. Recently rebuilt. The station has a sewer (actually a the river Westbourne converted into a sewer) running over it in a conduit. It received a direct hit and the site was flooded by the broken sewer conduit.
Blackpool Central suffered severe damage following a mid-air collision between a Boulton Paul Defiant night fighter and a Blackburn Botha.
The Botha crashed on the station.
The accident caused more casualties than all enemy action over Blackpool and the Fylde combined
This link carries the detailed history prepared by the Lancashire Aircraft Investigation Team
http://laituk.org/Botha-Defiant.htm
It appears to have been heavily censored at the time, resulting in it being little knownI never knew ab It that incident. My grandfather built Defiants at the B&P factory in Wolverhampton.
Stations that were hit included Bristol, Birmingham, Birkenhead and Plymouth but serious damage also occurred at the South Wales docks especially Swansea.
http://blitzwalkers.blogspot.com/2012/12/charlton-se7-london-suburb-at-war.htmlThe Booking Office and ancillary buildings of Charlton Station were completely destroyed on 23rd June 1944, when it received a direct hit from a V-1 flying bomb, killing four civilians, including Mrs. Newick, the wife of the signalman, who lived in the Stationhouse. As a result, the whole station was demolished and remained as a collection of temporary buildings until 1967, when the station was rebuilt into the style we see today.
According to my mother, there was much amusement in the village when Lord Hawhaw (or one of his partners in crime) announced the destruction of the "marshalling yards" at Montacute, Somerset.
There was similar amusement when the Germans announced the bombing of the docks at Milborne Port..............(look it up on a map)
The only locomotives I'm aware of being actually destroyed are the A4 at York and the Hall at Plymouth. In contrast in Germany destroyed locomotives ran into many hundreds. And again unlike Europe, can anyone think of a single mainstream bridge that was destroyed?