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    1. Re: [G] website on the London bombing blitz of WW2
    2. Teresa Goatham via
    3. Could the time bomb have been dropped at some other time during the war - the map only covers 7 Oct 1940 to 06 June 1941? Teresa On 14/12/2014 17:10, JANETHESKI via wrote: > I have a book published by a local historian, 'Surbiton Bombed'. I will > match the information with that on the London Blitz site, but I know of one > bomb that is missing. > > Where my uncle and cousins lived in Tolworth, part of Surbiton, a time > bomb blew up the row of houses in the road that their house backed on to. They > lived in Elmdene and the houses that were demolished were in Knollmead. > > There is no mention of this bomb, so maybe time bombs are not recorded on > the map. The houses were near to the Chessington branch line, which led to > an Ordnance Survey set of offices and probably other government > establishments. The railway line was the target, I have been told, and there were bomb > craters either side of the line. I don't think it was disrupted, other > than that the extension to Leatherhead and beyond was never built. > > Janet Heskins [2281] > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- ------------------------ Teresa Goatham Sign the petition to open historic BMD registers - http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/62779 (UK residents / British citizens only)

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