dennismcc Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 I was led to this map by a post over on Britmodeller, I was astonished at the number of places bombed in the UK during WW2, looking just at the area round by us there was some strange out of the way places hit. https://fortress.maptive.com/ver4/fc16310f8d27144708c64d54ebd5a874 Cheers Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 Holy cow, "out of the way places" indeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_K2 Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 Site doesn't work for me. spacewolf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kagemusha Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 That's brilliant, thank you very much. I see my home town, Hyde, was bombed three times, once in 1940, again in 1941, and 1944, none of which I knew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLWP Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 2 hours ago, LSP_K2 said: Site doesn't work for me. Nor me. Chrome on Windows 10 Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_K2 Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 Just now, RLWP said: Nor me. Chrome on Windows 10 Richard Firefox on Windows 10 for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ron Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 Same here, I get this Quote This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 but in general, for those unable to see the "whole picture" it's amazing to see an almost "bombing carpet" all over the UK, and that's just incredible to realize how many sorties of the Luftwaffe got to that result............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeC Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 (edited) 10 hours ago, LSP_K2 said: Site doesn't work for me. 8 hours ago, RLWP said: Nor me. Chrome on Windows 10 Richard 8 hours ago, LSP_K2 said: Firefox on Windows 10 for me. 8 hours ago, LSP_Ron said: Same here, I get this . +1 here - also Firefox on W10. Same result with MS Edge. Edited October 17, 2019 by MikeC LSP_K2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilB Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 (edited) Not working for me either but I don't think people realis how much of the country was bombed. My daughter's primary school (ages 5-7 for those outside of the UK) is in a village about 2 miles west of the Greater London boundary. The school has the "Old School Bell" on display in the reception. This was all that was salvaged after the school was bombed during the war and was then later re-built. Apparently it was on a Sunday so luckily no casualties but I always wondered why. Then I realised it is 2 miles away from the former RAF Uxbridge where the 11 Group control bunker (used in the film Battle of Britain) is. So on an East/West track any late release would have hit the village and the school. RAF Uxbridge has now gone but the bunker is still preserved and worth a visit if down this way. http://battleofbritainbunker.co.uk/ Edited October 17, 2019 by PhilB Gazzas, MikeC and nmayhew 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 Nope, I can’t see it either. I don’t quite see the point of building a website but then “protecting” it so that the majority of people appear not to be able to access it! Damned if I can be bothered to try either I’m afraid. LSP_K2, MikeC and nmayhew 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamF Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 Not working for me either, a lot of the bombers if they couldn't find the target used to just dump the bombs anywhere on the way back, My late father in law told me he remembered a Messerschmitt 110 flying low firing at people walking down a street in Essex on their way back home. Graham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curiouslysophie Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 Most of these style of maps are based off WWII bomb plot maps produced at the time to keep track of bombings. A lot of these are usually available in local archives/national archives. I would be wary of using them for exact hits though as they are notoriously inaccurate. There are many misplaced or missing hits. I had to use these extensively for my masters thesis, and it proved a pain to find proper information in the exact information. It is also a problem as an urban archaeologist, we frequently come across unexploded ordinance. They are useful for seeing the general areas that were hit though and as a good starting point for research. Gazzas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamF Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 There's a brilliant documentary 'Blitz: The bombs that changed Britain' where they analyze a particular raid in great detail and each individual bomb is marked accurately and who was killed in its wake and what that did to families even today.The data was collected during the war to give the war dept some idea of the effectiveness of bombing raids. One particular harrowing one was the bombing of Clydebank where a whole family were wiped out from just one bomb falling into the stairway of their flat. Graham nmayhew and Kagemusha 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLWP Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 2 hours ago, curiouslysophie said: It is also a problem as an urban archaeologist, we frequently come across unexploded ordinance. Presumably, the maps could only give locations of known bombs, so it's inevitable yours are not recorded. Otherwise, they wouldn't be there Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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