pressurework Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 Does anybody have any pics or links to pics of bomb damage from ww2? Any sites in town that are left unrepaired/memorials/etc. thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martss Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 Have you tried here? http://http://www.picturesheffield.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dozey Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 Try http://www.picturesheffield.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelJP Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 Most bomb damage is repaired now but if you stand underneath the railway bridge over the Wicker you can see where a 20 foot hole has been patched up, caused by a bomb in WW2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigflesh Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 ... and are there not artillery shot marks on the pillars at the front of the City Hall? Not exactly bomb damage, but on a similar vein. having thought about it, I'd be worried about 3rd world war damage to the city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heyesey Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 Most of the visible craters that are still extant, are out in Ecclesall Woods. Score one for putting up fake industrial lighting in the middle of a wood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterw Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 Fake industrial lighting? Where did that come from? The woods at that time were my playground, and if lights had been there I would have seen them. Is this yet another wartime myth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gneighbour Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 I heard the fake industrial lighting thing was done at Wharncliffe, out beyond Oughtibridge. the idea was to create a fake target to be bombed. It does seem unlikely that this weould have been done in Ecclesall Woods, surrounded as it is by houses and posh houses at that. The pits I've seen in Ecclesall Woods (and others around Sheffield) are from a primitive kind of lead smelting. You can spot them because nothing grows in them (the ground is poisoned) and they are shaped like a hand mirror -- an oval with "handle". The handle was actually a channel for the run off. Just googled and found out they are called "Q pits" here's the wikipedia link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_coal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willo Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 its true about the fake lites & stuff 2 try & fool the jerrys.there was a guy on telly not long ago whose job in the early days of the war was 2 run a fake airfield.complete with wooden planes,he told how the jerries flew over & dropped a wooden bomb on em,loooool, its true honest,who says germans have no sense o humour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 its true about the fake lites & stuff 2 try & fool the jerrys.there was a guy on telly not long ago whose job in the early days of the war was 2 run a fake airfield.complete with wooden planes,he told how the jerries flew over & dropped a wooden bomb on em,loooool, its true honest,who says germans have no sense o humour. It's true there were decoy sites but the one on the south west side of Sheffield was on the moors near Foxhouse, not Ecclesall Woods. A photo survey of the blitz damage was done and they're in the Local Studies Library on Surrey Street. Many of them are viewable online at the address people have posted, but there may be more in the library as not all the picture collection has been digitized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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