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Blitz...the Bombs That Changed Britain
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For those of you that may have missed this last night, I urge you to give a go on the iplayer. It was one of the saddest programs that I have seen in ages.....dozens of people killed, because the Government sent evacuation buses to to Camden Town, instead Canning Town. Shocking.
For those of you that may have missed this last night, I urge you to give a go on the iplayer. It was one of the saddest programs that I have seen in ages.....dozens of people killed, because the Government sent evacuation buses to to Camden Town, instead Canning Town. Shocking.
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No Mikey I watched the first 40 mins or so but when the subliminal messages about refugees and natives started to creep in I went for the sick bag and turned it over. The people interviewed were indeed a lost people. They were indeed to be admired, there are precious few left in London now. Misplaced and scattered.
Spicey....it was about the consequences of the dropping of one, unexploded bomb, in the very first days of the blitz.
It landed in a street in Canning Town, not far from the Royal Docks. Whole streets of people were evacuated because of the danger. Some got away altogether and survived. But some were evacuated to a so-called "rest area"....a local school. Buses were meant to arrive to take them away from the immediate danger, but these buses were sent to Camden, rather than Canning Town.
72 hours after the unexploded bomb fell, the Germans came back and bombed this school, killing pretty well everybody inside.
The program showed how badly the people of the East End were treated, which in the early stages of the 57 night blitz was shockingly inadequate.
Most of my Mums family came from Canning Town, and it was sad to see how whole families were just wiped out. Testimony was given in the program from the grandsons and granddaughters of the people involved at the time.
It landed in a street in Canning Town, not far from the Royal Docks. Whole streets of people were evacuated because of the danger. Some got away altogether and survived. But some were evacuated to a so-called "rest area"....a local school. Buses were meant to arrive to take them away from the immediate danger, but these buses were sent to Camden, rather than Canning Town.
72 hours after the unexploded bomb fell, the Germans came back and bombed this school, killing pretty well everybody inside.
The program showed how badly the people of the East End were treated, which in the early stages of the 57 night blitz was shockingly inadequate.
Most of my Mums family came from Canning Town, and it was sad to see how whole families were just wiped out. Testimony was given in the program from the grandsons and granddaughters of the people involved at the time.
//I'm not watching it unless it's 'with' somebody.// ...... //?//
I am glad s/o else can posting perfectly intelligble comments and he met with one "AB standard hand-out" - to wit - 'wot dat den?' Thank you Mikey for that one this morning
[yeah yeah I know a usual suspect will quip " standard hand-out - what is dat den den?"]
there is a web site that has all the bombs that fell on London
and explains why my royal college was half terra cotta and half modern ( or half terra-hunka). ( er because the Germans dropped a bomb on the future modern bit for slow readers )
and what did the 2005 bombers finish in Tavistock Square ?
The olden block is oppo BMA House which every fule kno was built by Lutyens for the Christadephians ( Annie Besant et all later went to India) - and the modern block adjoining ( nowTavistock Hotel ) was the block that Virigina Woolf lived in - she wandered round the bombed out remains of her house ( er in Tavistock Sq that is, in 1941 that was ) and went down to Susex filled her pockets with stones and drownded herself in the sea
One of my forebears was a med student ( Royal Freak) in teh same block and my heart beat faster as IU searched her diary for WOolf comments like - Bloody medical students - they keep us awake night and day ...... wrong house numbers in real life
[ yeah yeah floods of Wifginia Woolf - will she eat me den? etc etc]
they didnt have that in the prog did they ?
Oh they did and everyone chorussed at the screen - who she den?]
I am glad s/o else can posting perfectly intelligble comments and he met with one "AB standard hand-out" - to wit - 'wot dat den?' Thank you Mikey for that one this morning
[yeah yeah I know a usual suspect will quip " standard hand-out - what is dat den den?"]
there is a web site that has all the bombs that fell on London
and explains why my royal college was half terra cotta and half modern ( or half terra-hunka). ( er because the Germans dropped a bomb on the future modern bit for slow readers )
and what did the 2005 bombers finish in Tavistock Square ?
The olden block is oppo BMA House which every fule kno was built by Lutyens for the Christadephians ( Annie Besant et all later went to India) - and the modern block adjoining ( nowTavistock Hotel ) was the block that Virigina Woolf lived in - she wandered round the bombed out remains of her house ( er in Tavistock Sq that is, in 1941 that was ) and went down to Susex filled her pockets with stones and drownded herself in the sea
One of my forebears was a med student ( Royal Freak) in teh same block and my heart beat faster as IU searched her diary for WOolf comments like - Bloody medical students - they keep us awake night and day ...... wrong house numbers in real life
[ yeah yeah floods of Wifginia Woolf - will she eat me den? etc etc]
they didnt have that in the prog did they ?
Oh they did and everyone chorussed at the screen - who she den?]
Togo....there was nothing remotely "subliminal" about the issue of natives and immigrants, which if you had watched the program properly, referred to the difference that the authorities made between natives to the Borough, and those that were evacuated there, from other Boroughs.
This wasn't some fanciful notion, but fact, which you would have seen if you had stayed to the end.
This wasn't some fanciful notion, but fact, which you would have seen if you had stayed to the end.
// They were indeed to be admired, there are precious few left in London now. Misplaced and scattered.//
the refugees from the east end in Beaminster Dorset - Kath Den, Der; and Jack - stayed after the war ended - and everyone knew why. Poverty awaited their return and if they didnt - they stayed in their jobs....They retained their barra boys accents amonst the Darzet burr
history rewritten again
the refugees from the east end in Beaminster Dorset - Kath Den, Der; and Jack - stayed after the war ended - and everyone knew why. Poverty awaited their return and if they didnt - they stayed in their jobs....They retained their barra boys accents amonst the Darzet burr
history rewritten again
My Mum was evacuated to Devon in the autumn of 1939, as everybody thought that the Germans were going to come straight over, with gas bombs.
Luckily, she had relatives to stay with, on the edge of Dartmoor.
But by the following summer, nothing much had happened, and was indeed referred to as the phoney war, so she came back....just in time for the Blitz.
Her parents had moved in the meantime, to the Primrose Hill area of North London, so she managed to avoid the worst of the Blitz.
She always said that the bombs that really frightened her, were the V1's and V2's, the so-called silent killers.
Luckily, she had relatives to stay with, on the edge of Dartmoor.
But by the following summer, nothing much had happened, and was indeed referred to as the phoney war, so she came back....just in time for the Blitz.
Her parents had moved in the meantime, to the Primrose Hill area of North London, so she managed to avoid the worst of the Blitz.
She always said that the bombs that really frightened her, were the V1's and V2's, the so-called silent killers.
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