Tony Robinson (Blackadder, Time Team) made some programmes a while ago about the effects of the blitz, and even blew up some real bombs on real streets to demonstrate.
This trailer gives you an idea: <http://www.francetudiant.com/videos/blitz-street-Lvwdp3IL3HQ> Imagine that for each of the blobs in the map, night after night. B > From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rick Womer > > Good heavens. > > When we lived in London 30 years ago I did a lot of reading about the > Battle of Britain, and met a lot of people who "were there." This is > still astonishing. > > Rick > > http://photo.net/photos/RickW > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Bob W <[email protected]> > To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' <[email protected]> > Cc: > Sent: Saturday, December 8, 2012 3:37 AM > Subject: OT: Bomb sight > > This is an interesting website which shows you where all the bombs > landed in London during the blitz. The link is set up with the > coordinates round my house, on Azof Street: > <http://bombsight.org/?#16/51.4890/0.0063> > > When I first moved here the site at the junction with Christchurch Way > was still derelict, 50 years after the war. It's been built on now. > Some of the older people still living on this street were here > throughout the war, while the bombs were dropping round them. From time > to time while people are doing building work an unexploded bomb still > turns up. The most recent near to me was on the riverside path about 10 > years ago. > > When you zoom out of the map it's quite shocking to see how many bombs > fell in such a short time. We gave as much as we got, of course. > > B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
