DJRVST
master brummie
There is a story in our family concerning WW11 and the bombing of Hockley and Ladywood areas. Usually under the heading of "The night of the Big Raid". A few questions if anyone can help.
Was Ellen Road School destroyed by a landmine killing all those in the shelter?
Was there a memorial tablet on the site?
Any records of a landmine falling upon the Conservative Club in Lodge Road (about 30 yards down from the junction of All Saints Road). It did not go off.My mother,father and brother were in a shelter opposite-I believe in Hockley Bus Depot in Whitmore Street? It is my brothers earliest recollection of that night and of the shrapnel falling down, and the blast shock wave as he and my mother left home (near the Flat) and it would have been before he was old enough to attend school so he was 4 or so.
He believed the targets were likely the Pitsford Street Goods Depot.
To the best of my memory thats the basic information.
Was Ellen Road School destroyed by a landmine killing all those in the shelter?
Was there a memorial tablet on the site?
Any records of a landmine falling upon the Conservative Club in Lodge Road (about 30 yards down from the junction of All Saints Road). It did not go off.My mother,father and brother were in a shelter opposite-I believe in Hockley Bus Depot in Whitmore Street? It is my brothers earliest recollection of that night and of the shrapnel falling down, and the blast shock wave as he and my mother left home (near the Flat) and it would have been before he was old enough to attend school so he was 4 or so.
He believed the targets were likely the Pitsford Street Goods Depot.
To the best of my memory thats the basic information.