Adrian, Don't know if you're aware of the Norwich 'bomb map'? It's had some conservation work done of late and the BBC carried a news item about it - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-26261969 Roger Harvey #4178 The Ashpole and Bettington One-Name Studies -----Original Message----- From: goons-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:goons-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Adrian Abbott via Sent: 14 December 2014 18:12 To: GOONS Subject: Re: [G] website on the London bombing blitz of WW2 I know from trying to research bombing in the area where I now live that much of the available evidence comes almost into the category of Urban Legends and is very unreliable. Newspaper reports were not to be trusted because many incidents were censored or altered. For instance, I now live near a Starfish Decoy site that simulated a railway junction and attracted some bombs which killed several people, but the fact that bombs were falling on farms rather than the railways was suppressed for obvious reasons. During WW2 Norwich, where I lived, and I suspect every urban area nationally, had a Report Centre, which was manned by people ineligible for the Services. My father was in a Reserved Occupation, but spent four nights every week at the Report Centre from about 1940 to 1944 when the raids tailed off.( I suppose it is ironic that when a time bomb demolished our house round our ears my father was in the house, not the Report Centre, but survived). As I understand it, every incident was notified to the Centre, who then coordinated the emergency services to deal with whatever had happened. The records of these centres would be invaluable, if they have survived. As an example Norfolk Record Office does have some records, but it is difficult to see from their online catalogue what they contain. For anyone interested in finding reliable information a search in the local Records Office could therefore be well worth while. Adrian _____________________________________________ 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