Map pinpoints where London was blitzed
LUFTWAFFE BOMBS RAINED ON STREETS YOU LIVE AND WORK ON
FOR those in London who can remember, The Blitz - the German word “blitzkrieg” meaning “lightning war” - was one of the most harrowing and bloody times in the capital’s history.
From September 7, 1940 to May 11, 1941, London suffered a sustained and wicked bombardment by the German Nazi air force known as the Luftwaffe.
Night after night huge bombs reigned on every inch of London, killing thousands and destroying homes.
From September 7, 1940, London was bombed for 57 consecutive nights.
Out of the darkness came the “Blitz Spirit” where Londoners battered and bruised, banded together to resist Adolf Hitler’s ferocious aerial campaign. In July 1940 the Germans began planning their attack on the Soviet Union, effectively giving up on their eight month bombing campaign of Britain and London.
Incredibly every bomb that hit London between October 7, 1940 to June 6, 1941, has been recorded by the website Bomb Sight.
The project, devised by the University of Portsmouth, shares the information online which previously was only available through the The National Archives.
The information is so detailed that the data gathered allows you to pin-point the exact roads that were struck.
It is estimated that the Luftwaffe dropped around 24,000 tonnes of high explosives on London during The Blitz with Ealing , Hillingdon and Hounslow each borough suffering catastrophic attacks. Parachute mines were designed to explode just before hitting the ground. Bomb hits suffered by each area:
Ealing
Ealing was struck by a high explosive bomb 563 times between October 7, 1940 to June 6, 1941. Three parachute mines were also used in Ealing during this period. Acton Central: 28 Cleveland : 35
Dormers Wells : 13
Ealing Broadway: 22
Ealing Common: 27
East Acton: 78 and 2 parachute mines
Elthorne: 20
Greenford Broadway: 18 Greenford Green: 25 Hanger Hill: 50,1 parachute mine Hobbayne: 20
Lady Margaret: 2 Northfield: 12
North Greenford: 35 Northolt Mandeville: 11 Northolt West End: 17 Norwood Green: 16 Perivale: 21
South Acton: 46 Southall Broadway: 39 Southall Green: 13 Southfield: 14 Walpole: 1
Hillingdon
Hillingdon was struck by a high explosive bomb 579 times between October 7, 1940 to June 6, 1941. Five parachute mines were also used in Hillingdon during this period.
Barnhill: 32
Botwell: 26
Brunel: 10
Cavendish: 15
Charville: 10
Eastcote and East Ruislip: 59 and 2 parachute bombs Harefield: 49
Heathrow Villages: 93 Hillingdon East: 19 Ickenham: 18
Manor: 17 Northwood: 21 Northwood Hills: 27 Pinkwell: 30, 1 parachute bomb South Ruislip: 24, 1 parachute bomb
Townfield: 32, 1 parachute bomb Uxbridge North: 23 Uxbridge South: 26
West Drayton: 12 West Ruislip: 13 Yeading: 3 Yiewsley: 20
Hounslow
Hounslow was struck by a high explosive bomb 674 times between October 7, 1940 to June 6, 1941. A parachute mine was used once in Hounslow during this period.
Bedfont: 34 Brentford: 90 Chiswick Homefields: 36 Chiswick Riverside: 73 Cranford: 12
Feltham North: 34 Feltham West: 27 Hanworth: 23 Hanworth Park: 77 Heston Central: 15 Heston East: 11 Heston West: 13 Hounslow Central: 25 Hounslow Heath: 18 Hounslow South: 12 Hounslow West: 20 Isleworth: 23
Osterley and Spring Grove: 22 Syon: 46
Turnham Green: 71