Comments on: The Making of a Modern Park event – how was it? https://bridgetonowhere.friendsofburgesspark.org.uk/the-making-of_how-was-it/ Burgess Park reflecting back in time Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:25:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.4 By: Bill Rigby https://bridgetonowhere.friendsofburgesspark.org.uk/the-making-of_how-was-it/#comment-5339 Wed, 29 Jul 2015 21:31:27 +0000 https://www.bridgetonowhere.friendsofburgesspark.org.uk/?p=1375#comment-5339 In reply to Andrew Pearson.

I don’t have any maps available, but have collected some information from archives. I lived in Cobourg Road till bombed out then moved to Neate Street which also suffered bombs close by, quite large parts of neate Street from Cobourg Road towards Trafalgar Avenue was destroyed in various air-raids along with my first school Scarsdale Road. The most killed in one raid was at the Loncroft Road where a large number of young girls were killed at the place where they had gone to help others.

]]> By: Andrew Pearson https://bridgetonowhere.friendsofburgesspark.org.uk/the-making-of_how-was-it/#comment-5314 Tue, 28 Jul 2015 20:32:42 +0000 https://www.bridgetonowhere.friendsofburgesspark.org.uk/?p=1375#comment-5314 In reply to Bill Rigby.

Hi Bill
I put together the map myself from 3 different websites, which was all the information I could find. The main one for the blitz bombing was Bomb Sight, which seems to be fairly comprehensive. I also used the LCC bomb damage maps for the V1 and V2 rockets. Please post more info here if you have, or email us direct.

]]> By: Bill Rigby https://bridgetonowhere.friendsofburgesspark.org.uk/the-making-of_how-was-it/#comment-5235 Sat, 25 Jul 2015 10:29:48 +0000 https://www.bridgetonowhere.friendsofburgesspark.org.uk/?p=1375#comment-5235 A young man at the meeting asked why I was there I explained I had lived there from 1941 till 1959 and pointed out there were large gaps in the map showing bombs falling in the area. He asked a few questions, if he would like more information please get in touch.

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