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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]A couple of bits of information I have found while indexing the Heanor and District Local History Society newsletters: 1. The bombs in the second world war were dropped in 1941 "when German aircraft released high explosive bombs which fell in the fields behind the Horse and Jockey at Langley Mill and incendiary devices on the Secondary School playing fields" (Issue no 207, article by Frank Bacon) 2. Bombs were dropped over Ilkeston in World War I - it was said that the navigator of the airship which dropped them had worked at Stanton Ironworks, but the bombs were actually dropped near Bennerley Ironworks. This might be the origin of the rumour about bombs being dropped in the wrong place. (same article) 3. Issue no. 201 included a first hand account of the bombing at Langley Mill, by a resident of Howitt Street. Glass was broken and plaster came off the walls - "the bomb had dropped a quarter of a mile from us,... across the road from Howitt Street in the fields killing a bunch of cows." Hope this is of some use.[/quote]
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Langley Mill Bombed during WW2?
replied on: 5/27/2003 8:30:14 PM

A couple of bits of information I have found while indexing the Heanor and District Local History Society newsletters:

1. The bombs in the second world war were dropped in 1941 "when German aircraft released high explosive bombs which fell in the fields behind the Horse and Jockey at Langley Mill and incendiary devices on the Secondary School playing fields" (Issue no 207, article by Frank Bacon)

2. Bombs were dropped over Ilkeston in World War I - it was said that the navigator of the airship which dropped them had worked at Stanton Ironworks, but the bombs were actually dropped near Bennerley Ironworks. This might be the origin of the rumour about bombs being dropped in the wrong place. (same article)

3. Issue no. 201 included a first hand account of the bombing at Langley Mill, by a resident of Howitt Street. Glass was broken and plaster came off the walls - "the bomb had dropped a quarter of a mile from us,... across the road from Howitt Street in the fields killing a bunch of cows."

Hope this is of some use.

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