Bombs maps of London

Was walking trough my office the other day when i passed one of the geotechnical engineers desks............

there on a desk as i passed was a very large book entitled

The London County Council Bomb Damage Maps 1939-45

needless to say i stopped and had a look to find detailed mapping of all of the bomb damage for the greater London area.

So if your interested in any particular location let me know and will try and get a copy of the relevant page.

singe

 

please feel free to merge threads and tidy up.......

 

He better hold on to that book... the last copy I saw on the internet went for £750.00... yes, £750.00!

 

I bought a copy for £30 the other day, and found the street my Mum lived in during the Blitz..its a tome of a book and there is more to be found as I had Aunts who lived in Catford too.

 

Another shrewd investment Jason, how do you do it!!

How much do you charge for look-ups?

 

Not wishing to get in the way of commercial enterprise, but there is also this:
Bomb Sight - Mapping the London Blitz

 

I am gifted mate... But to be fair its on Amazon for betweeen £26-31 I found it in a shop called Home sense checked online price and thought well I'm here its here let's buy it. If Tony's post does not meet requirements let me know what your after, and my services come free!

 

Yep I have a copy too not sure it covers all the London damage but none the less its very good
The originals are £500 and more

 

Thanks Tony, I've checked out this site many times. This is all related to the Curzon Crescent coincidence you helped with just before Christmas. It solved a family mystery in the end, to do with where my Nan was bombed out.

 

Thank you, I'll be back.

 

OK Arnie.

 

Unfortunately it's restricted to the boroughs of the County of London, so no good for my lot in Plaistow.
I think the first edition is a larger format than the recent reprint, but at <10% of the price I'm not going to complain too much.

 

Ok, I'm back. I'm looking for possible information on the destruction of my Nan's place of residence around the 19th September 1940. She lived at 6 The Terrace, a side road off Kilburn High Rd in North London.

Attached are two maps which might assist in pinpointing the location. One already shows two Luftwaffe hits from the Bomb Site website, but these seem too far away to have caused the damage to Nan's home.

Anything you can find Jason would as always be much appreciated.

Steve

 

Steve have checked my copy

also attached colour codes for damage


Bomb Census survey records 1940-1945 - The National Archives

 

Looked at Clive's post and my own book, that tiny portion of yellow above the larger one is as the key shows only minor blast damage...but is a lot closer to where your Nan lived but does not explain the destruction you mention, although the bombs shown on your map are maybe inaccurate as none are shown in area for the two yellow blast damage?

 

Steve, not a lot but if you go to this site:
http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/campaign_diaries.cfm?diarymonth=9&diaryyear=1940&diaryday=15
About half way down the page you will find a section headed ‘Home Security Report’, the date is 15 September 1940, there is a paragraph:
“Kilburn: HE bombs fell at Kilburn High Road which is blocked as a result, and damage was done to the railway bridge which crossed it.”

 

Thanks very much Gents for taking the time to search for information. From what my Mum remembered, the whole Terrace was demolished after the bomb damage and a large water tank was erected on the site for use by the Fire Brigade and other emergency services during the rest of the war.