WDYTYA WW1 & WW2 Bombings Birmingham.

[andrewp91]

Dear Birmingham History Members, I was wondering if it is possible that someone might have a copy or any maps showing where the bombs fell over Birmingham & Surrounding areas during the Worlds Wars. I seen the map on Who Do You Think You Are not so long ago and never knew it existed. Any
mappings of where the bombs fell would be very grateful please and thank you

The main areas of interest would be Handsworth, Aston, City Centre, Sheldon/Yardley, and Kings Heath/Moseley. But any other districts would be highly appreciated too for my keepings

Kindest Regards
Andrew

 

[mhemery]

Hi Andrew, not a map, but a detailed account of deaths and injuries in ww2 in and arround b,ham, can be found here. https://www.swanshurst.org/barra/results.asp

 

[Morturn]

There is a small map of the Erdington area in a local website here https://www.goosemoor-lane.com/erdingtonbomb.htm

As the author correctly point out, it may not be an accurate record, I can see one error

 

[wam]

https://brianwilliams.org.uk/diary/!introC.html
compiles diary entris from a young boy over the course of the war. He seems to have included a lot of detail on individual raids. I don't know how much that would help.

 

[Phil]

Hi Andrew,

As far as I understand you can get a copy of all or parts of the map from Birmingham Central Library, I would imagine it is available in much better resolution that here. The different colour tabs indicate the different type of bomb that fell.

 

[ColinB]

I have copies of 4 maps covering Kings Heath, but they need to be high res to be able to read, if you send me a Private message with your e-mail address I will send you copies


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[oldMohawk]

Back in 2012 I found a map (can't remember now how I did) which showed where bombs fell but only for November - December 1940. I never really investigated whether there were maps for other months/years. The forum link is below
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=3210&p=442012#post442012

 

[Phil]

These are some of the bomb plot maps that I have collected over the years from various locations, some of them may even be from this site.

 

[Phil]

This is the last of them, all I can tell you about them is that black is a HE bomb. red is an incendiary bomb and X is a UXB.

 

[Old Boy]

Hi Andrew,

I cannot say with certainty but I am fairly sure that no bombs fell on Birmingham during WW1. If any did it was very few.

Old Boy

 

[sheldontony]

Help please. I grew up in the area of map 4 and I know the roads werent built until after WW2. How would they have been marked as it must have been farm land?

 

[farmerdave]

Hi Andrew,

I cannot say with certainty but I am fairly sure that no bombs fell on Birmingham during WW1. If any did it was very few.

Old Boy

It certainly does appear to be very few. I have recently purchased a book called "Birmingham, Remembering 1914-18". It was published this year (2014) and is written by Sian Roberts in association with the Library of Birmingham. There was reported to be a Zeppelin raid on 19th October 1917 when an outlying building of the Austin Works was hit and two people injured. Two bombs from a Zeppelin were also dropped on 12th April 1918, landing on the Robin Hood golf course and Manor Farm. No one was injured. The book is well worth getting. I paid £12.99 at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, but it may be cheaper elsewhere. Dave

 

[Phil]

Help please. I grew up in the area of map 4 and I know the roads werent built until after WW2. How would they have been marked as it must have been farm land?

I can't say for sure, but I suppose that because the area was all fields at the time they have been imposed over what looks like an early A to Z map for ease of location.

 

[Bob Davis]

Thanks for this, living in Court Lane, I remember the bombs that hit Goosemoor Lane, but I was surprised when I visited my mother who is now 97 and in a home in Nuneaton and has occasional memory lapses, in trying to make conversation with her I mentioned the map and the people who had died and she instantly recalled taking my sister and I to Erdington on the bus S67 or S76 and seeing the people affected by the raid wandering around aimlessly, some still in night clothes. Although I remember the bomb in Court Lane in the cemetery and one house being destroyed in Goosemoor Lane, I cannot remember this at all. I would have been about 5 at the time. The map has been of great interest

 

[postie]

Hi Andrew,

I cannot say with certainty but I am fairly sure that no bombs fell on Birmingham during WW1. If any did it was very few.

Old Boy

Have a look here______ https://www.birminghammail.net/lifest...idlands-254566