PLYMOUTH BLITZ FAMILY AT WAR
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- Опубліковано 16 гру 2021
- Travel back in time when I visit the house my mother was living in during the Wartime Blitz of Plymouth 1940. Mutley Road Mannamead is close to the centre of the city just off Mutley Plain.
My grandfather was serving in the Royal Navy and was working at Keyham Naval College in Devonport.
The first bombs fell on Plymouth on the 6th July 1940, with the city's naval base and docks making it a major target.
However, the heaviest instances of bombing on the area took place on 20th and 21st March, and then 21st, 22nd, 23,rd 28th and 29th April 1941, with 900 people killed and 40,000 made homeless over seven nights.
London aside, Plymouth was one of the most heavily bombed cities in the country.
More than 200,000 incendiary bombs were dropped on the city, along with more than 6,600 high explosive bombs.
According to Plymouth City Council figures, 3,754 homes were destroyed and 1,174 civilians were killed between the first bombs on the 6 thJuly 1940 and 30th April 1944.
Plymouth was re-built in the 1950s and 1960s. This followed a plan designed by the famous Town Planner, Patrick Abercrombie.
I was born 3/29/39 and lived in mid-town Manhattan NYC. People have told me that I was mistaken in my belief of remembering Pearl Harbor, but I do remember sitting in my high chair and my extended family being present and the pall that was cast by the news from Hawaii. During the war my mother gave me detailed map explanations of our progress. The house where my dad was born in Sotputhhampton was destroyed. The Chrysler building was just seven blocks away and without current auto models to display they displayed war material, aircraft machine gun turrets, anti-aircraft guns, etc. I was allowed to try these things out. We had a victory garden and there were the newsreels. There were wounded veterans home for treatment. The selflessness and heroism. It was my formation.
Thank you so much for this video . My mother was 7yrs old when WW11 started and 13 when it finished . She had many memories of this frightening time - ie: playing with her friends , waking in the morning to witness a friend and their family had lost their lives during the evenings bombing 😢 the people of that time must have been so scared especially the children that understood what was happening - but it made them stronger - my granny for one was a strong little one . We are teaching the children about WW11 in yr3 at the moment , which I feel is most important, history should never be forgotten and neither should those who bravely fought for our country . I live in plymouth and have all my life , as a teaching assistant in our school - I just can't help but become emotional while our little ones are being taught by a fantastic teacher . These children know no different at the moment as they're still so young - but I hope they take the lesson they're being taught with them and never forget what the people of plymouth went through at the time . I hope and pray we never have to go through this again because one man wanted to rule the world 🙏
Gosh, that must have been quite terrifying for those living through it. Such devastation yet they just carried on. Thank you for putting this together, reminds us of what folk had to endure.
Thank you for producing this great documentary of the Plymouth Blitz!
Very well done! Lots of film and pictures I’ve never seen before. I also enjoyed the wartime memories of those who lived through it. Most enjoyable.
My great grand dad a family were wiped out in 1941 at Royal navy avenue...shame
My mum was born in 1929 in Plymouth, her father was on HMS Campania doing the Russian convoys. My dad was born in 1926 and a teenager during the war, starting an apprenticeship at Rolls Royce, his father, a shipwright was in western Scotland building Norwegian Trawlers used as minesweepers, convoy escort ships and undercover operations across the North Sea.
My grandad was a evacuate during the blitz and he was evacuated but he kept running Away that thought it would be safer for him to be with his family
I lived in Plymouth a few years ago and i remember the local council finding a old air raid shelter under the grounds of Beaumont Park, St Judes and also said that there is a tunnel which leads from Drake's Island to the Hoe
Excellent footage my mother was 4years when she was evacuated to Wales, her father my grandfather was a sailor on HMS Caribdus and still lies on the seabed off the french coast thanks to a German u boat my dad was an 17 year old dispatch rider in Plymouth during the bombing of Plymouth and somewhat fortunately for him his motorcycle got trapped in the tram lines,and so avoided a trip on d day and was at green bank hospital, thanks again
Thank you very much for uploading
Very good coverage in general of the bombing in Plymouth, and being born in Morice town just after the war ended, I use to have bombed houses as playgrounds, just
Thank you for doing this - it's really interesting.
I was born in Barnstaple, but now live far away. Your videos give me great pleasure, thank you jb.
Ive subscribed.i see you have many other interesting vids!
I was born in Plymouth & always amazing at how the city managed the challenges of WW2
Very good, Chris, my Ma was bombed out of Bristol. Long after the war I remember still seeing bombed out ruins, craters & such devastation so I'll bet Plymouth was ahead of the game so far as rebuilding went. Although what they've put behind the old church is an awful eyesore!! The first hand accounts & all the documentary film footage was very well tied together, another one to share with family in the vicinity. Amazing to think what people went through & to think such horror is going on in Ukraine now, doesn't seem possible. Keep safe & thanks for this.
Thank you! yes, drafty enough to begin a firestorm i should think, imagine that
Great work there mate!
Thanks for all the work you put into this.i was there about 54-55 as a young child.looking at the map i think we lived in alma rd opposite the park.i remembet the football ground was opposite.i remember playing with boats at a pond.the circus arriving at the park.trolleybuses.playing on the bombsite next door.going to the royal parade shops and seeing rows and rows of medals in a shop,a hockshop i guess.i was fascinated.