How much was your city destroyed during the blitz?

[Moh]

Was having a conversation about why my city has a bad reputation and kinda moved onto this subject

Anyways, where I live (Hull) had around 86,715 buildings destroyed and 95% of all houses destroyed or damaged.

Appart from London, we was the most heavily bombed =[

So yeah, do you know how much your city was bombed during WWII?

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[scott]

That's weird I was talking about this with someone the other day

I never done much history about it in my secondary school but we done quite a bit in primary since the school had a lot of history about it and WWII as well, but my area and a mile around it in each direction got hit quite bad - the area just along from my house suffered the worst in Scotland and was left with very little houses etc. It's because it was beside the river clyde which is were all the boats were being made and stuff!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clydebank_Blitz

[Cosmic]

I can never seem to find reports of my city being bombed during WW2, but I know for sure that it was bombed in WW1. A Zeppelin bombed Leeds and then made its way across to Stoke bombing most of the outlying towns before it was shot down at sea or something.

[Moh]

That's weird I was talking about this with someone the other day

I never done much history about it in my secondary school but we done quite a bit in primary since the school had a lot of history about it and WWII as well, but my area and a mile around it in each direction got hit quite bad - the area just along from my house suffered the worst in Scotland and was left with very little houses etc. It's because it was beside the river clyde which is were all the boats were being made and stuff!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clydebank_Blitz

Yeah, we was near a river too. We had one of the major ports during WW2 with us been on the east cost - plus we were already one of the largest fishing ports before that.

I can never seem to find reports of my city being bombed during WW2, but I know for sure that it was bombed in WW1. A Zeppelin bombed Leeds and then made its way across to Stoke bombing most of the outlying towns before it was shot down at sea or something.

If you're from Leeds, we took some of your bombing because pilots couldn't find your city so they just dumped them on us

[-:Undertaker:-]

I believe a lot of Liverpool was bombed during the war and my grandparents were evacuated at the time. Liverpool was due to become the de facto capital of the United Kingdom and of the Empire in the case that London was seized had the Germans won the Battle of the Atlantic and of Britain. The stock piles of our gold bullion were apparently moved to Liverpool and perhaps the Crown Jewels also (you'd have to check that up) as they were preparing for a land invasion.

Thankfully that never happened, and thankfully Liverpool has more imperial architecture left (I have read) than even the city of Bath.

[Nemo]

well since u said london was the only one who was bombed more, then i win i guess. I imagine it had quite a lot of damage if you said it was more than 95%

[Swastika]

Teesside only got bombed once on the 25th May, dont know which year.
Only 88 people died but the Germans were aiming for our steel and iron works etc.
Apparently they had maps of every single factory and steelworks in the Middlesbrough area, and the first bomb to fall, fell on my estate.
Here's our train station, after the bombings.



Apparently aswell during the Cold War, Teesside was very high on the list of bombing targets for the Soviets.

[JACKTARD]

I live in the suburbs of Birmingham so 70 years ago it was the countryside so virtually no damage

[Mikey]

That's weird I was talking about this with someone the other day

I never done much history about it in my secondary school but we done quite a bit in primary since the school had a lot of history about it and WWII as well, but my area and a mile around it in each direction got hit quite bad - the area just along from my house suffered the worst in Scotland and was left with very little houses etc. It's because it was beside the river clyde which is were all the boats were being made and stuff!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clydebank_Blitz

Same for me.

[HotelUser]

It (for obvious reasons) was not destroyed during the blitz whatsoever