BAEDEKER RAIDS on York 29/4/1942 - Part 3

BAEDEKER RAIDS on York 29/4/1942 - Part 3
In 1942 I lived in my home City of York and after my Dad had left for the war (we saw him again six years later) mother and I and small brother John lived with Auntie Betty in St. Johns Street in a direct line with York Station and the Minster.
My memory of the raid was seeing the lady across the street throwing a burning matress from an upstairs window. I should have been in the brick and concrete air-raid shelter in the back yard! I don't think as kids we were afraid - just the grown-ups who actually realised what might have happened.
Regarding this film - I recognise the places, like Nunthorpe Grove. I attended Nunthorpe School ten years after the war and lived in Nunthorpe Avenue.

[@rosesprog1722]

The bombing of civilians in times of war is unjustifiable and should be absolutely forbidden, no matter who, what or where. As sad as these events were, the British population were never told that those horrors were retaliations from British raids that were much mpre destructive and sustained throughout the war, Berlin, for example was bombed more than 300 times... hard to comprehend.

[@paulhepworth]

Visit poppletonroadhall(dot)org(dot)uk to see another positive and lasting outcome. The history page tells all. Two years ago we were visited by a surviving Luftwaffe pilot now in his 80's, who had been on the raid aged 21.