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WW2 Harborne
- Thread starter Brenda T
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superdad3
master brummie
I seem to remember that Harborne Library had a map showing where the bombs fell in Harborne - I think there were only a few. They also have information about the Harborne Home Guard and a few phots of bomb damage. Hope they still have them - it must be nearly 30 yrs since I was in there looking at them!
Thomas Neale
Brummie babby
This maybe clutching at straws as houses can disappear for lots of reasons other than bombs. My Grandfather was born in Bedworth but his parents died in the same week when he was 10 and in 1901 he was living with his sister in Bedwoprth. He moved to Birmingham and started work at the Birmingham Post and Mail in 1904. I have him on a rate book in 1906 living in York St. Harborne at number 33 but if you look on Google Maps there is a house sized gap between 31 and 35 so at some point 33 has been demolished and I was wondering if anyone knew if it was the handywork of the Luftwaffe. He was ,however , "safely" ensconsed in Legge St Aston by WWII.
hi thomas i have checked the BARRA site and there are no reports of injuries/deaths for no 33 york st..to be honest i think that part of the city was fairly untouched by the blitz..it could just be that no 33 was demolished due to bad repair etc..here is a useful map you can use anywhere in birmingham..i have set the map onto york st and if you move the blue dot to the left the map fades out and shows you what is there now also posting link to todays street view...lyn
very odd jan..if you look at my 74 map no 33 looks dead opposite york mews yet on the one you posted it looks to be quite a bit further down the st...
Google maps gets the numbering wrong quite often, so its not a reliable source
if we look at this map there is a gap/passage to the right of no 29 but if we look at todays view the gap is to the right of no 27 yellow door..baffled at the min
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=20.0&lat=52.45839&lon=-1.94611&layers=170&b=ESRIWorld&o=100
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=20.0&lat=52.45839&lon=-1.94611&layers=170&b=ESRIWorld&o=100
just to add to my last post i am now wondering if this line of 5 houses are not that old and they did not have quite enough space to build another no 33...just a thought clutching at straws now 
lyn
lyn
