Vinny the Mackem
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Clydebank was only bombed twice, 13 & 14 March 1941. More or less destroyed the town.
This is the map of the damage in the town.
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Sunderland in world war 2
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This is the map of the damage in the town.
Trauntrian
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Sure this has been answered elsewhere in this thread but because of the shipyards and the docks Sunderland was hammered quite badly during the second world war.
This is the reason the architecture of Sunderland City Centre is mainly mid-20th Century with the odd surviving older building here and there.
Including places like the magnificent Victoria Hall theatre, Sunderland Train Station, the Winter Gardens.
The train station and winter gardens have been rebuilt since - the train station to a fecking awful design and the Winter Gardens to a pleasing design but nowhere near the size of the original.
This is the reason the architecture of Sunderland City Centre is mainly mid-20th Century with the odd surviving older building here and there.
Including places like the magnificent Victoria Hall theatre, Sunderland Train Station, the Winter Gardens.
The train station and winter gardens have been rebuilt since - the train station to a fecking awful design and the Winter Gardens to a pleasing design but nowhere near the size of the original.
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Ah!! and there's the Queen mother (gawd bess her) in canny owld Sunderland, making amends for what her relatives did.
Deleted User 11453
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I didn't realise that the Royals visited Sunderland in WW2 mate, gawd bless 'em knees app mavver browwwwwwwwwwwwn.
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Teed
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Only after the bombs mate...
Pseudonym Number 1
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Shite that, our cranes were much bigger.
Deleted User 11453
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Only after the bombs mate...
They probably radioed in the Luftwaffe, y'knaaaa helping their own and all that, directed them from a distance then popped up for some free publicity. Probably.
Tower blocks more concrete-y and dismal anarl.
Where the Mormon Church is?There was a big fuck off bomb crater in the field behind the house which is now the Rosedene. A few yards difference and said establishment might not have come into existence.
Alan BStard
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That could explain the waterlogged ground at the bottom of my Mam & Dad's garden then. Well, that and the rain.
CollingwoodFTM
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Here's a pic of the page. Not being part of the Luftwaffe's flight planning and Airspace Capacity Management team, I am not sure why Sunderland was chosen, but the theory seems logical.
Correct answer.
Should have really said town/city.
Falconhoof
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There's still marks on the South pier where a German bomb hit during WWII
it sounds like one of those 'sounds good, but most probably is'nt true'..
If we were 7th most bombed city then its because Sunderland was a viable target, not because some German in a plane did a sharp left (define sharp left in navigation terms over a few hundred miles at 200 mph) at Blackpool Tower. What did the luftwaffe do if they were bombing Liverpool or the Scottish ports and could'nt find them?, fly around looking for Blackpool?
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pillars of hercules
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My grandmother moved house 3 times during the war and shortly after each move the houses were flattened.
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Paddy O'Dors
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Wasn't the most devastating bomb dropped somewhere around Tatham Street? A direct hit on an air raid shelter? Probably the same time my old man's house in nearby Mordey Street was flattened (although he obviously wasn't in it at the time )
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