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WW2 bombs dropped in Kingstanding

daimlerman

daimlerman

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Edit - this thread has been created from comments originally posted on The Pimple Kingstanding thread.

daimlerman said:
Sorry Lynn I didn't realise it had Bern posted there.

Jeff
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Hi Lyn,
I've just heard back from a pal who now lives in France.
He, and his family lived in Hurlingham Road. His mother lived there during WW2.
When he was a young lad his mother told him there were search lights on the pimple. The sound of the generator running comforted her, particularly after a bomb hit a house further along the road, killing the occupant.

That sounds a plausible explanation but needs confirmation.

Jeff
 
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jeff do you mean a bomb dropped on hurlingham road..if so i have checked the BARRA data base and cant see any deaths for that road..

lyn
 
Astoness said:
jeff do you mean a bomb dropped on hurlingham road..if so i have checked the BARRA data base and cant see any deaths for that road..

lyn
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How strange. I've read somewhere an elderly lady was killed with the Hurlingham road bomb during the same raid that killed people in Kingstanding Road, The house in Hurlingham Road was destroyed. (Aparrently).
 
4 deaths at no 757 kingstanding road including a 3 year old child and his mother aged 29..very good chance dad was away fighting for his country...how very sad

lyn
 
Astoness said:
4 deaths at no 757 kingstanding road including a 3 year old child and his mother aged 29..very good chance dad was away fighting for his country...how very sad

lyn
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Yes Lyn,
That's what I understood. Luckily kingstanding was on the periphery of the bombing targets around there, Witton etc. My mom told me how the German planes would shoot the roof tiles off the houses for fun after a bombing raid.
 
Astoness said:
jeff do you mean a bomb dropped on hurlingham road..if so i have checked the BARRA data base and cant see any deaths for that road..

lyn
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A lady was injured at 158 Hurlingham Road in a raid on 25 Aug 1940
By 1945 eroll 158 had disappeared from the list along with 160 and 162.
 
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daimlerman said:
How strange. I've read somewhere an elderly lady was killed with the Hurlingham road bomb during the same raid that killed people in Kingstanding Road, The house in Hurlingham Road was destroyed. (Aparrently).
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Lyn,
Ahhhh. Found it on voices of kingstanding site.
The houses in Hurlingham Road were destroyed and quickly rebuilt in the same style.
The great granddaughter wrote that her great grandmother, Mrs Robinson perished in the bombing.

Jeff
 
daimlerman said:
Lyn,
Ahhhh. Found it on voices of kingstanding site.
The houses in Hurlingham Road were destroyed and quickly rebuilt in the same style.
The great granddaughter wrote that her great grandmother, Mrs Robinson perished in the bombing.

Jeff
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right jeff ive found it now on the BARRA site and yes mrs robinson was sadly killed aged 61..her name should be on the tree of life war memorial in the city centre which honours all civilians of birmingham that died during the blitz..2 of my ancestors are on it


RobinsonHilda Daisy25/08/1940160 Hurllingham Road, Kingstanding61Civilian
 
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Astoness said:
right jeff ive found it now on the BARRA site and yes mrs robinson was sadly killed


RobinsonHilda Daisy25/08/1940160 Hurllingham Road, Kingstanding61Civilian
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Phew! Thanks for acknowledging that one. I was beginning to think I'd dreamed it. Mind you, at 71, dreams and reality sometimes merge.

Jeff
 
My dear mom, aged 20 lived in College road with nanny and Grandad. My dear dad aged 23 was in the Irish Guards 2nd battalion. While he was away mom worked at GEC Witton.
After a long night of Bombing, later in the war, they crawled out from under the stairs, made a cup of tea and walked to work. They MUST get to work.
Amongst the rubble and smell of explosives mom and her pal lilly, reached what Should have been their workplace.
Lilly's press was down a hole and she cried. The poor lass was heartbroken because she couldn't do her job for the war effort.
I always found that a really sad story.
My dear dad ended up at the battle of Arnheim , Holland. They took a real battering there.
I find it almost unimaginable what the people of Birmingham took on the chin and carried on regardless. I would like to think if such atrocities happened again Birmingham would rise again to the occasion.

Jeff
 
Astoness said:
Astoness said:
right jeff ive found it now on the BARRA site and yes mrs robinson was sadly killed aged 61..her name should be on the tree of life war memorial in the city centre which honours all civilians of birmingham that died during the blitz..2 of my ancestors are on it


RobinsonHilda Daisy25/08/1940160 Hurllingham Road, Kingstanding61Civilian
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right jeff ive found it now on the BARRA site and yes mrs robinson was sadly killed aged 61..her name should be on the tree of life war memorial in the city centre which honours all civilians of birmingham that died during the blitz..2 of my ancestors are on it


RobinsonHilda Daisy25/08/1940160 Hurllingham Road, Kingstanding61Civilian
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Sorry if I messed up reply because of clicking to many time on reply.
My late Mum told me about one incident when she was in the
Anderson shelter down the bottom of our garden with my brother and sister. She actually could hear the planes or plane and the bombs coming down.
She actually thought the shelter was going to be hit, and she bit hard on her collar coat not to scream and so not to wake up my siblings.
She’s said if they were going to die at least my brother and sister would no nothing because they were asleep.
Our back garden in Cranbourne road faced the back garden in Hurlingham Road. That house was not hit but it was close enough for Mum knew that a house had been hit.
I’m not sure how long after, but my brother and sister were evacuated to a cousin’s for 2 years.
Both my brother and sister have passed and unfortunately was something I never spoke in depth with perhaps being only 7and 5 they had very little memory of the bombs falling.
 
hi diane that bears out what a lady told me many years ago...she lived in rodwell grove which backs onto cranbourne road and she said as she walked out of her house the german planes came over firing their guns and she had to run for cover and threw herself in a hedge..must have been so scary

lyn
 
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I've just found this thread again ;) The bombing in Hurlingham Road I remember well, We lived at number 82 and went up to see the damage the next morning, the whole block was flattened and we were told all the family had died in the air raid shelter out the back, we kids collected bomb shrapnel from the road.
At the time it seemed like a stray bomb from planes targeting Kingstanding Road which had bomb craters in many of their front gardens.
 
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