Kathleen Morris, nee Guest, now living in Congleton, Cheshire. Bomb sites - V1 Rocket bomb damage - The Nazi's most feared weapon landed in Lancashire and other local bomb sites. We didn't see it here? I was terribly shocked and I wept. In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please click here. Incendiary and high explosive bombs also fell at the junction of Waterloo Road and Sandon Road; the sandhills at Hillside; in the grounds of Terra Nova School on Lancaster Road; Ryder Crescent; Breeze Road; St Thomas More School on Liverpool Road in Ainsdale; Stourton Road; Oxford Road; Westbourne Road; Salford Road; Mossgiel Avenue; Pinfold Lane and Palace Road, near the Palace Hotel. I couldn't believe it - there was the works chimney still standing, but as I approached the entrance to the works lane and saw all the people standing around I knew it was true. A forgotten building near Blackley, Manchester, This building looks, to the uneducated eye, like another public toilet. Plans were in place to fight to the last man and woman, like the French Resistance had done. But as we have started to research the subject on a local scale, we have realised that the War did indeed reach Lancashire more than just rationing and the "war effort". Plus they have a photo of it before demolition HERE. Parachute mines were also dropped on the foreshore. I went round to the company secretary's house nearby and asked him for the office and safe keys. Parachute mines were responsible for the damage at Salford Road and Pinfold Lane. Drawn from all walks of civilian life, they would be expected to attack military vehicles, destroy ammunition dumps, wreck railway tracks and disable enemy aircraft that were on the ground. BUT many were Internment Camps - places where they put innocent foreign nationals. Our thanks to them for taking the time to research these sites and then creating accessible walks for the public and for publicising them. Official statistics tell us that in the nine raids on Southport 12 houses were totally destroyed, 35 had to be demolished owing to extensive damage, 131 were seriously damaged, 1,467 were slightly damaged and 651 had damage to windows. Why is there a section of brick behind them at an angle....wait a minute.... are they for guns! During this raid one person was killed and 15 were injured, with 250 people having to be evacuated due to the presence of unexploded bombs. Three people were injured. The West Coast of Britain was seen as a threat during WW2 for various reasons - including its long flat beaches that were deemed a good invasion threat for both sea and air (especially glider) invasion. Are they old windows? This story has been placed in the following categories. The West Coast of Britain was seen as a threat during WW2 for various reasons - including its long flat beaches that were deemed a good invasion threat for both sea and air (especially glider) invasion. Some sites were totally unsuitable! The square concrete structure is the surviving part of a relatively rare ROC Observation Post from WW2. The main sources of information include records from the central government (National Archives), local authority archives, the Ministry of Defence, and the German Luftwaffe. Miraculously there were no reported casualties during this air raid. Because of a number of unexploded bombs, 1,100 people had to be evacuated from their homes. Next to it is a much vandalised Cold War ROC monitoring bunker. There are a few houses nearby - but would they all try and fit in if there was an air raid? But also as the neutrality of Ireland was always a concern to the British government - was there a possibility Germany cound make some sort of deal with Britain's nearest neighbours? Everyone knows about the POW camps that British troops tried to escape from abroad. Find out how you can use this. Southport suffered its next bombing raid four days before Christmas 1940 when two parachute mines and one high explosive bomb were dropped on the town. A new interactive map painstakingly put together from official records has recorded all the bombs that fell on the UK in World War II. Leaving seven dead for no apparent reason. BELOW: Two Royal Observor Corps structures side by side. The Bomb Sight web map and mobile app reveals WW2 bomb census maps between 7/10/1940 and 06/06/1941, previously available only by viewing them in the Reading Room of The National Archives.