Me and my mate Stanley worked out ways of fooling the German bombers. If they machine gunned us from the air, we'd pretend to fall down dead, then get up and run again, then pretend to die again. This would ruin their estimate of civilian casualties.
Robert Westall: Children of the Blitz: p28
Position of bombs dropped in Tynemouth Borough, 1940-43 (detail) Archive Reference: TWAS T383/345
Local authorities were in charge of ARP and demolition and repair of bomb damaged properties.
Detailed records were kept because of compensation claims for 'war damage'. some of which went on for many years after the war
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Bomb numbers 134, 135, 136, 137 fell on the night of May 3rd 1941
Red Circles show exploded high explosive or landmine bombs.
Black Circles show unexploded bombs.
Red Triangles show exploded fire pot incendiary bombs
Bomb No 134: Direct Hit on Wilkinson's Factory Shelter: 103 people killed.
Bomb No 135: Direct Hit on house: 2 killed
Bomb No 136: Unexploded bomb: 0 casualties
Bomb No 137: Exploded on beach: 0 casualties
Compare this map with the Luftwaffe Stadtplan Map
The cluster of bombs bottom left (map above) show fairly accurate attempts to bomb the Railway Station.
Bomb No 198 (30/9/1941) is a direct hit.
Again, looking at both the German target map and this map: Bomb No 62 (10/4/1941) shows a hit on Preston Hospital.
The Tynemouth Bomb Map records a total of 329 bombs. The first fell on June 26, 1940 and the last on March 25, 1943.
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