EXPLORE THE LONDON BLITZ during 7th October 1940 to 6th June 1941

I thought this was pretty cool.

Very cool!

Wow!!

Apparently one fell at the end of the street where I grew up and every alternate pair of houses up the street had the windows either blown in or out. According to old Mr Stewart from across the road who still had his bomb shelter in the back garden when I were a lad.

Good grief - they pretty much carpet bombed the entire city! looks like one came down more or less in my back garden. I have found what looked like shrapnel whist digging.

The house that stood where my apartment block now stands was hit by three British bombs on the 3rd of March 1945. They said it was a mistake.

Great! Now I can approach Mrs Merkel with my compensation claim..

They completely missed California.

A couple of Japanese balloon delivered firebombs landed just north of here though.

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They didn't seem to have hit Australia at all. Silly NAZIs missing a whole country like that.

On the other hand the Japanese got Darwin a couple of times. And I have been to one of the at the time secret air force bases that bombed Japanese targets, I don't think they could reach Japan though.

Our next door neighbours are in their 80s and have lived in the street most of their lives. They said that a house opposite had taken a direct hit and the marks in the stonework on the front of our house (which I attributed to pollution) was in fact shrapnel damage. And this map confirms that indeed there was a bomb that landed exactly where they said it did.

Very cool. Thanks!

Just been checking the map. Seems that they missed two artists' houses ... Lawrence Alma-Tadema's place at 44 Grove End Road, St John's Wood, and Rossetti's London residence at no 12 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. Waterhouse's old London address apparently avoided being hit though one bomb did fall close by. Meanwhile, it seems three bombs straddled Frederic, Lord Leighton's former residence in Holland Park Road. I'm not sure if Millais' residence was near the Australian High Commissioner's residence in Palace Gate, but a bomb fell close thereto.

A couple of bombs fell close to the home of Ada Lovelace, the computer science pioneer whose enthusiasm for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine is now a part of computing legend. The home of Lord Lister, the pioneer of antiseptic surgery, as 12 Park Crescent, Regent's Park, was apparently bombed, as was apparently the house in which none other than Mozart composed his first symphony. Serendipitously, the birthplace of Alan Turing in Maida Vale appears to have escaped any bombs.

They missed my grandparents house in Harrow, but only by about 100 metres.

The damage from the one that fell by the Natural History Museum is still visible in Exhibition Road, on the walls of the V&A.

I wonder if they'll produce similar maps for the later years which would include V1 and V2 bomb sites.

I've seen this map before and it's been updated. If you expand the map to max you will see that the bombs that appear to be clustered on top of each other are in actual fact often several streets apart. I noticed one error where 'Napier Road' in East Ham is said to be in Bekton. It's nowhere near Bekton which is about two or three miles away.
Also, this data has been superimposed on a modern map where roads do not exist where they once were making it historically inaccurate.
I noticed that there are some bombs missing, so it is not complete.

And the oldest Norman church in London (St. Mary Magdalene, East Ham) is not even shown yet they list KFC and fucking McDonalds that did even exist then!

Almost all within the disc of the M25. Weird, I thought that was built after the war....

Ha! They didn't go near my auntie house on windermere road. Which was a wise move on their last, she's a harridan. Hitler would never have heard the end of it!

V2 in next street I think

My grandmother in Hampstead had an oil bomb in her garden which did not ignite, and the next day found one of her azalea bushes in a neighbour's garden, upside down and covered in oil. She asked Kew gardens for their advice, which was to replant it and wash the leaves with soap and water. It was fine.

I LIKE this.

Just found out a bomb landed next to my work.

Nice try but no cigar - with a little more effort we could have had a nice boating pond or something.

DarthHelmet86 wrote:They didn't seem to have hit Australia at all. Silly NAZIs missing a whole country like that.

On the other hand the Japanese got Darwin a couple of times. And I have been to one of the at the time secret air force bases that bombed Japanese targets, I don't think they could reach Japan though.

No way! He was dead long before that.

Skinny Puppy wrote:

DarthHelmet86 wrote:They didn't seem to have hit Australia at all. Silly NAZIs missing a whole country like that.

On the other hand the Japanese got Darwin a couple of times. And I have been to one of the at the time secret air force bases that bombed Japanese targets, I don't think they could reach Japan though.

No way! He was dead long before that.

Yeah but we rolled out his corpse to stop the bombs.