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Old 10th Aug 2008, 21:32
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Originally Posted by skua
Does anyone know where online one can find a map of all V1 bomb sites? I am particularly interested to find out which parts of my neck of the woods (SE London) were involuntarily modified by the V1s ( and indeed the V2s).
One of the better known ones in your area was the Bexleyheath bus garage (in wartime days trolleybuses). It had already had significant damage from standard bombing, but a V1 came down as a direct hit and destroyed about 60 double-deck trolleybuses, one of the most significant bits of war damage to the London transportation network. Amazingly many were "rebuilt" after the war, though how much of the original remained to be incorporated is doubtful. The bus garage building there nowadays dates from the early 1950s.
Photograph 1998/35205 - Photographic collection, London Transport Museum
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