If you google microsoft map, enter se23 as a postcode the satellite views give a very good indication of where sticks of bombs fell in SE23. I am interested because of a stick that fell from Honour Oak road down through Waldenshaw Road and beyond destroying the church on Waldenshaw Road (now the Fairlawn Primary annex). It is quite visual given the differing ages of the houses affected.
Yes, it's curious that rocket strikes in surrounding SE post codes are well documented on the above site but there is absolutely nothing for SE23. I'm personally aware that a V1 fell on One Tree Hill.
I remember reading about a tram which was hit by a bomb on London Road not far from The Horniman during WW2. Several people were killed. My neighbours had lent me a local history book. I will have to ask them to borrow it again.
Thanks. According to this site, the nearest to One Tree Hill was when a V1 came down in Camberwell Cemetery (SE22) with no casualties.
However, I'm pretty sure one came down actually in One Tree Hill because I know that the casualty who survived (my dad) was walking his dog on the Hill at the time and he subsequently spent three months in hospital recovering from shrapnel wounds.
I guess the Imperial War Museum might be the place to properly check this out.
The posh estate had a smattering with at least one semi totally destroyed and roofs and ceilings damaged. If you look from the rear of our properties you see patches of different coloured roof tiles, which I have always wondered were due to bomb damage. Ceilings are also made of fibreboard, rather than lath and plaster, which someone suggested again could have been due to bomb damage due to a shortage of the usual materials to repair celings. There is also apparently one house with a bit of bomb still embedded in it. When houses were rebuilt after the war, they followed the same design, odd as now they would of course try to build totally different.
Book details re bomb map above:
London County Council Bomb Damage Maps 1939-45 (Hardcover) by Ann Saunders (Editor), Robin Woolven (Introduction), pub. Dec 2005.
I've also got a copy of the bomb damage maps, and they confirm all the V1 incidents mentioned in these posts: One Tree Hill, Bovill Road, Fermor Road/Marler road, Fairlawn and the Station/Perry Vale .
From what I have read, SE London suffered from V1 attacks because it was on the flight path from their launch bases in northern France to London and they often fell short. Don't think they were capable of being specifically targeted.
For those who want to read more, I'd particularly recommend "Red Alert" by Lewis Blake. It is a detailed account of the bombing in SE London. There are copies at all the local libraries.
Our Government (Bless them!) deliberately engineered the shortfall.
To protect central London, they gave false information about the bombs that landed (i.e. said they had landed north of London) and tricked the Germans into shortening the range.
Also I am sure I picked up a book years ago in one of the local charity shops which detailed all the WW2 bombs & damage in Lewisham giving all the bombing dates and casualty numbers. It may still be at home somewhere so I will try and find it. I remember it, as there was a particulary horribly incident of a bomb landing on one of the junior schools in the area where a load of the children died.
Brilliant!!!!! Can you post the map that shows the page to the left?
Sorry, I only copied the one page that I was interested in i.e with my house on it (the whole street is totally white on the map - phew!). Apologies for being so selfish! I hadn't anticipated the wider interest at that time.....
I understood that rather than targetting East and South East London, German bombers had to jettison unused bombs having completed their raids in order to lighten the load enough to make it home.
I think they came up the river to the east end.
I think Sandhurst primary School was bombed deliberately in the mistaken belief that it was Sandhurst Military Academy.