Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue

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Forms BC4 giving the following information: place; district; raid number; time of attack; date; bomb number and time; size of crater; nature of soil; size of bomb; damage, location, map reference and remarks; male/female/children killed; male/female/children injured seriously; male/female/children injured lightly. The following raids are noted: - Bedford: 500kg HE 50 yards SE of Ford End Bridge; 500kg HE on Marine Store Dump, 20 yards SE of Ford End Bridge; 500 kg HE on Grafton Assembly Rooms and part of County Theatre, Midland Road; 500kg HE on Grosvenor Private Hotel, 5-7 Ashburnham Road partially demolishing building - 6 males, 7 females and 1 child lightly injured; (23 Jul 1942); - Bedford: 250kg HE on allotments between Broad Avenue and Mile Road - 1 female seriously injured, 2 females lightly injured with damage to property; 250kg HE on allotments near Willow Road, damage to property, one female lightly injured; 120 incendiaries in meadows between Cardington Road and River Great Ouse; 120 incendiaries on pleasure grounds at Longholme and Russell Park; 240 incendiaries on Russell Avenue, Castle Road, Pembroke Street South, York Street South, Denmark Street South, Dudley Street South, George Street South, Greenshields Road and Russell Park, one male lightly injured; 300 incendiaries on HM Prison, tavistock Street, Peel Street, Cross Street, Balsall Street, Cobden Street, Queen Street, Derby Street, Princes Street, Wellington Street, Adelaide Square, Albert Street, Foster Street, and Foster Hill Road, 2 males and 3 children killed, 2 males, 1 female, 1 child seriously injured, 16 males, 12 females, 6 children slightly injured; 300 incendiaries on Howbury Street, Bower Street, Pembroke Street, Denmark Street, York Street, Dudley Street, George Street, Castle Road, Greenshields Road, Phillpotts Avenue, Irwin Road, Rosamund Road and Russell Park, 1 male and 1 female killed, 5 males seriously injured, 9 males lightly injured; 300 incendiaries on Brookfield Road, Everard Road, Goldington Road, Barkers Lane, Risborough Road, Wendover Drive, Aylesbury Road and Laxton's Nurseries; 100 incendiaries on meadows between Cardington Road to Russell Park and junction of Embankment and Bushmead Road; 500kg HE 50 yards west of Kimbolton Road in rear garden of 192 Kimbolton Road, 2 males and 2 children killed, 1 male seriously injured, 3 males, 2 females and 1 child lightly injured; 500kg HE on 176 Kimbolton Road; 500kg HE on 2 and 4 Putnoe Lane; 500kg HE 200 yards SE of east end of Balmoral Avenue; machine gun straffing 400 yards south of Borough boundary parallel with Mile Road; (30 Jul 1942); - Biggleswade: container of incendiaries in garden of 1 Pumping Station Cottages; container of incendiaries in field 150 yards west of Pumping Station; container of incendiaries in field 50 yards north of Pumping Station; 50kg HE in field 400 yards east of A1; 50kg HE in field 300 yards east of A1; 50kg HE in field 250 yards east of A1; 50kg HE on hedge 200 yards east of A1; 50kg HE on field 150 yards east of A1; 50kg HE in field 100 yards east of A1; 50kg HE in field 50 yards east of A1; 50kg HE on verge of A1; 50kg HE on north east corner of Pumping Station Cottages, 1 female seriously injured; (4 Aug 1942); - Edworth: 100 incendiaries in field at Lower Farm; (4 Aug 1942); - Caddington: 250kg HE in disused brick field between markyate Road, Slip End and Woodsdie Road, Woodside, 350 yards south of Harrow Public House; 250kg HE in disused brick field 42 yards from first bomb; (22 Oct 1943); - Caddington: 60 incendiary bombs in field 200 yards NE of Bury Farm; 150 1kg incendiaries in fields and woodland over a half mile radius; (4 Feb 1944); - Streatley: container of 1kg incendiaries and loose incendiaries in field around White Hill Farm; (23 Feb 1944); - Eyeworth: V1 flying bomb in field 500 yards SE of Biggleswade and Ashwell roads; (5 Sep 1944); - Thurleigh: V1 flying bomb in field 200 yards SE of Brook Farm house; (10 Oct 1944); - Westoning/Harlington: V1 flying bomb causing superficial damage to Production Tool Alloy Company, Harlington Nurseries, Mill Farm and Horsehills Farm; (12 Oct 1944); - Maulden: V1 flying bomb causing superficial damage to Oxleys Farm and West End Farm, Haynes and Clayhill Cottages, Maulden Wood; (13 Oct 1944); - Great Barford: V1 flying bomb in Rogers Fields, 150 yards west of Windmill Road causing slight damage to Great Birchfield Farm, Little Birchfield farm and East View Farm; (10 Dec 1944); - Henlow: V1 flying bomb in field 300 yards west of main road, 70 yards south of Henlow Camp damaging property at RAF Henlow, Birch Bros Bus Garage, Pollards Nurseries, station house, Sir John Barleycorn Public House, Arlesey Co-op, houses and shops; 1 female and 1 child lightly injured; (11 Dec 1944); - Silsoe: V1 flying bomb 20 yards east of A6 800 yards from Clophill Crossroads causing damage to Lord Nelson Public House; (18 Dec 1944); - Henlow: V2 rocket at City Field Farm, 600 yards south of farm house, damage caused to properties in Arlesey: 4 Hitchin Road; True Briton Public House; 5, 38 and 40 Hospital Road; Brickground Hotel; 1, 7, 9, 28, 34, 58, 78, 80, 82, 84, 126, 191, 193, 200, 245 High Street; Arlesey Council Mixed School; 47 Station Road; 94 and 325 House Lane; 2, 3, and 12 Lymans Road; Cosy Cinema; Rose & Crown Public House; Arlesey House; Clayfield House; 1 Brook Street, Stotfold; and 2 and 72 Norton Road, Stotfold; (10 Jan 1945); - Studham: V2 rocket in 12 Acre Field, Hill Farm, 50 yards east of B486 one mile south of Dagnall [Buckinghamshire] doing damage to windows in Studham and Dunstable; - Chicksands: V1 flying bomb at RAF Chicksands damaging barrack huts and greenhouses; 1 male lightly injured; (23 Mar 1945)
Date free text
1942-1945
Production date
From: 1942 To: 1945
Language
English
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