Sounds great, I'll have a look and maybe add some details to the deaths of 3 children of one Pullum family, who died at Keeton's Road School. Bermondsey, London on Saturday 7th September 1940. The school was being used as a shelter on the first day of the Blitz. Siblings Lucy (17), Catherine (16) and Stanley (15) were among the 400 killed at the rest centre that night. Nikki #6552 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Benedict via" <goons@rootsweb.com> To: goons@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, 13 December, 2014 8:07:00 PM Subject: [G] website on the London bombing blitz of WW2 For those with history and ancestors of WW2 and London, this may be useful. Pinpoint bomb drops in your grand/parents neighbourhoods. The site is at: bombsight.org It starts with a map of London, dotted with bomb locations throughout the city. You can zoom in on a street, or for something really scary, zoom out to see southeast England blanketed by red pins. When you zoom in, you can click on a bomb icon for further details. There is usually a "read more" link in the popup, which leads to 1940 photo images from the area, contributed people's stories relating to this area and even more. For those living in London, there is an Android app available. With it, you can use your device GPS to see the bomb locations superimposed on today's Google street view. Does this help anyone find some background on their relative's wartime stories??? About the project ----------------------- The Bomb Sight project is mapping the London WW2 bomb census between 7/10/1940 and 06/06/1941. Previously available only by viewing in the Reading Room at The National Archives, Bomb Sight is making the maps available to citizen researchers, academics and students. They will be able to explore where the bombs fell and to discover memories and photographs from the period. The project has scanned original 1940s bomb census maps , geo-referenced the maps and digitally captured the geographical locations of all the falling bombs recorded on the original map. The data has then been integrated into 2 different types of applications: Jim Benedict Guild Representative for Western Canada Guild of One-Name Studies: Guild member #4794 Calgary, Alberta www.BenedictGenerations.com ======================================================== _____________________________________________ 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

There is a book "Safe as Houses - Wimbledon at War 1939-1945" published by the Wimbledon Society that goes into great detail about all the incidents in Wimbledon Borough right through WW2, so includes V1 attacks. The book includes a 6 inch to the mile map which distinguishes between the various types of incident - high explosive bombs, oil and petrol bombs, incendiary bombs, unexploded bombs, misfired anti-aircraft shells, crashed aircraft and V1 flying bombs. No V2s fell in the area. The book would be of great interest to anyone (like myself) from the area. I don't know if it is available on line. Leslie Darbyshire GOONS 3599 researching Brockwell/Brookwell On 14 December 2014 at 01:56, NIKKI BROWN via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Sounds great, I'll have a look and maybe add some details to the deaths of 3 children of one Pullum family, who died at Keeton's Road School. Bermondsey, London on Saturday 7th September 1940. The school was being used as a shelter on the first day of the Blitz. Siblings Lucy (17), Catherine (16) and Stanley (15) were among the 400 killed at the rest centre that night. > Nikki > #6552 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Benedict via" <goons@rootsweb.com> > To: goons@rootsweb.com > Sent: Saturday, 13 December, 2014 8:07:00 PM > Subject: [G] website on the London bombing blitz of WW2 > > For those with history and ancestors of WW2 and London, this may be useful. > Pinpoint bomb drops in your grand/parents neighbourhoods. > > The site is at: bombsight.org > > It starts with a map of London, dotted with bomb locations throughout the > city. You can zoom in on a street, or for something really scary, zoom out > to see southeast England blanketed by red pins. When you zoom in, you can > click on a bomb icon for further details. There is usually a "read more" > link in the popup, which leads to 1940 photo images from the area, > contributed people's stories relating to this area and even more. > > For those living in London, there is an Android app available. With it, you > can use your device GPS to see the bomb locations superimposed on today's > Google street view. > > Does this help anyone find some background on their relative's wartime > stories??? > > > About the project > ----------------------- > The Bomb Sight project is mapping the London WW2 bomb census between > 7/10/1940 and 06/06/1941. Previously available only by viewing in the > Reading Room at The National Archives, Bomb Sight is making the maps > available to citizen researchers, academics and students. They will be able > to explore where the bombs fell and to discover memories and photographs > from the period. > > The project has scanned original 1940s bomb census maps , geo-referenced the > maps and digitally captured the geographical locations of all the falling > bombs recorded on the original map. The data has then been integrated into > 2 different types of applications: > > Jim Benedict > Guild Representative for Western Canada > Guild of One-Name Studies: Guild member #4794 > Calgary, Alberta > www.BenedictGenerations.com > ======================================================== > > > > _____________________________________________ > > 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 > _____________________________________________ > > 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