The WW2 Sheffield bomb map.

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  1. Mr Badger

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    For those interested from a previous post.

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    One or two only just missed their target by a couple of hundred yards at Hillsborough. Interesting to see the sheer amount of bombs that the Germans dropped on Sheffield. My mother in law is from Shiregreen and they thought they were fairly safe living out of the city centre away from the industry. She remembers one air raid where the bomb blasts were particularly loud. Came out of the shelter to find that a house on the next street had a direct hit.
     
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    Looks like a few dropped on the location of my secondary school - shame it wasn't 40 years earlier :(

    Seriously, surprised at how few landed out Attercliffe/Brightside way.
     
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    I wonder how much black would be on a map of Dresden
     
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    that was my thought as well - would have thought the steelworks of Attercliffe and Brightside would have been the main target.
     
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    They would have been but aerial bombing was so inaccurate that anywhere close would have been good enough.
    Then take into account weather, cloud, searchlights, anti aircraft fire, fighter aircraft, I'm sure even the Germans just wanted to get away as quickly as possible.
    They would have ditched their bombs anywhere, sadly for the recipients.
    Just look at the unfortunate people buried alive in the Marples Hotel in Fitzalan Square. They are still down there.
    Edit to this .... apparently about 70 people were killed in the Marples and there is no suggestion in what I've read that anybody was left in the ruins. The people were supposedly taking shelter from the air raid in there.
    It's maybe just one of the black dots on the map.
     
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    355 tonnes of bombs on Sheffield + 16000 incendiary canisters. 660 deaths
    2,700 tonnes of bombs on Dresden. The maps are just a blur but the pictures are total devastation. 30,000 deaths
    12,000 tonnes on London. 20,000 deaths.
    36,000 tonnes were dropped on Berlin. 92,000 deaths
    All estimates.
    In comparison Hiroshima 135000, deaths
    Nagasaki 78,000 deaths.
     
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    http://www.rhaywood.karoo.net/bombmap.htm

    this is a good read,Hull kopped for it big time , even more so because the germans dumped bombs that wernt dropped further inland at sheffield on hull , for some reasons hull gets very little mention when people talk about air raids
     
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    Hull size for size was the most bombed city in Britain....due to secrecy the newspapers just said " an East coast town" was bombed again....I've got the bomb map for it somewhere.
     
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    The real prize was Ambrose Shardlow's..for some reason they never came near it, at the time it was the only factory in Britain turning out crankshafts for the Merlin engine.
     
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    This is just one of 16 maps that cover the damage to Hull.

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    Fascinating. I'd heard about Hull being the most bombed town but when you see the black dots it brings it down to a very personal level.
     
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    I don't suppose you have any maps for the barnsley area
     
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    My dad when I was growing up would often tell the story about how he stood at the door of the air raid shelter in Abbotts road Lundwood watching the skies in Sheffield light up he said they could at times feel the ground vibrate and they could hear the noise of the bombs exploding..he would often recall that one day a german bomber was that low from returning from the sheffield bomb run he saw the pilots face before diving back into the shelter....it was that low that the home guard managed to shoot it down in pontefract adding if the lundwood home guard would have had any bullets for their guns they would have been the ones to get it...
    He was working for the cundycross/stairfoot laundry at the time and would most days go with the driver to Sheffield said it was a right mess and a sight he had never forgot ....bless him
     
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    As far as I know Barnsley was never bombed, South Yorkshire got away quite lightly all in all, Doncaster had 14 killed in 1941...there is a memorial in Arksey cemetery to the victims and I know 7 ARP/Home Guard men were killed by a delayed action bomb near Ackworth...Rotherham had a couple of raids but fortunately very few casualties.
    Considering the importance of the Sheffield steel industry it seems surprising it wasn't attacked again.
     
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    Complete map link below

    http://www.rhaywood.karoo.net/bombmap.htm
     
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    an excellent thread Mr B.
    I have links to Walkely Sheffield and a hospital there was partially bombed because there was a tall chimney from the boiler room adjoining the hospital. Hospital Chimney mistaken for a factory one.
     
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    I only wondered because whilst out detecting this week my mate found a piece of brass timing device off of a bomb
     
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    Did they miss the pig sty?
     
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