Sorry all for the previous message - In the previous message I had left the E-mail stationary on which appears to have upset the rootweb server.I have sent again as I know several of you sensibly prefer not to open attachements to e-mails - Peter **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** **** I live in Burnham on Crouch which is just across the River Crouch from Southend and I can confirm that bombs fell on this area in 1940. Eastern Essex ended up as a target in two ways - Firstly being on the coastline nearest to Europe it was filled with Naval installations , Army camps and RAF stations; secondly being on the coast it was the first and last point of contact for German aircraft with the land of the UK and so German bombers often dropped any leftover bombs on our area rather than take them back to Germany and admit failure. Mostly they hit fields but sometimes they landed on houses etc. In my area more casualties occurred because of these random drops that deliberate acts!! Southend Museum have a records specifically relating to Southend in WW2 - A nice E-mail may encourage them to provide details for you http://www.southendmuseums.co.uk/ An incident file exists for the whole of essex that records enemy activity during the whole of WW2 - It is a really great resource as it will certainly records your bombing. The best place to access it is via Essex Records Office - http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/MainMenu.asp then search Southend incident file. If you contact Essex Records Office and explain what you would like they can arrange a researcher to check out the details although there may well be a small fee for this service. Peter www.essex-family-history.co.uk

You may also find useful, if you can get them in a library, a series of books which were published in 1980 entitled The Blitz Then and Now which give a day by day account of air raids through out the country. There are 3 volumes - Vol 1 deals with Sept 1939 - Sept 1940. I only have vol 2 (don't ask - it's a long story!) so can't help specifically with Jan 1940 Regards Tony -----Original Message----- From: essex-uk-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:essex-uk-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Peter Layzell Sent: 23 July 2008 10:45 To: ESSEX-UK@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Ess] Southend and WWII Sorry all for the previous message - In the previous message I had left the E-mail stationary on which appears to have upset the rootweb server.I have sent again as I know several of you sensibly prefer not to open attachements to e-mails - Peter **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** **** I live in Burnham on Crouch which is just across the River Crouch from Southend and I can confirm that bombs fell on this area in 1940. Eastern Essex ended up as a target in two ways - Firstly being on the coastline nearest to Europe it was filled with Naval installations , Army camps and RAF stations; secondly being on the coast it was the first and last point of contact for German aircraft with the land of the UK and so German bombers often dropped any leftover bombs on our area rather than take them back to Germany and admit failure. Mostly they hit fields but sometimes they landed on houses etc. In my area more casualties occurred because of these random drops that deliberate acts!! Southend Museum have a records specifically relating to Southend in WW2 - A nice E-mail may encourage them to provide details for you http://www.southendmuseums.co.uk/ An incident file exists for the whole of essex that records enemy activity during the whole of WW2 - It is a really great resource as it will certainly records your bombing. The best place to access it is via Essex Records Office - http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/MainMenu.asp then search Southend incident file. If you contact Essex Records Office and explain what you would like they can arrange a researcher to check out the details although there may well be a small fee for this service. Peter www.essex-family-history.co.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK-admin@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ESSEX-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message