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stanley	Langley Mill Bombed during WW2? replied on: 7/1/2006 1:45:34 PM I was on firewatch duty at the co.op hall the night the bombs were dropped.workers employed at the co.op were required by law to attend on a rota system .if my memory serves me rightTom Muggleton was the caretaker that night
paulr	Langley Mill Bombed during WW2? replied on: 2/27/2006 3:23:26 PM I have a piece of shrapnel three and a half inches long x one and three quarter inches wide x three quarters of an inch thick,alledgedly from a bomb dropped at the top of Thompson Street behind Dr.Holmes house in Godkin Fields. Date? I was told that this was embedded in the trunk of a large Holly tree in our front garden and at the time my Grandad was standing behind it.
RMMee Moderator	Langley Mill Bombed during WW2? replied on: 2/13/2005 6:25:36 PM In the latest edition of the Heanorian (the magazine for old students of Heanor Grammar School), Alec Grace offers this account: "I remember one night (in 1942 I think), a Heinkel 111 dropped three bombs near Langley Mill. The last of the three fell in the field opposite our house on Lower Dunstead Road. All the windows were blown out, and the front door was blasted off its hinges, across the hall and onto the staircase. The bedroom ceiling fell in, onto my bed. In daylight we went to the crater in the field. A herd of cows had been eviscerated in the explosion, and their entrails were everywhere. So far as I remember, we were sent off to school as though nothing had happened."
bobbrown	Langley Mill Bombed during WW2? replied on: 3/21/2004 11:05:38 PM I was born on 6 August 1944 at Upper Dunstead Road, Aldercar, and family folklore has it that my birth was encouraged by the explosion of a bomb in the fields where the council estate was later built. I cetainly remember playing in a crater there in later years!
RMMee Moderator	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.
D	Langley Mill Bombed during WW2? replied on: 4/22/2003 2:14:22 PM All the people I have spoken to seem to think the year was either 42/43 and it was also a Saturday night hope this helps
D	Langley Mill Bombed during WW2? replied on: 4/22/2003 2:03:05 PM I have been told that there were two bombs dropped on the fields where the council estate now stands on Daltons farm? apparently in the pig sty. A bomb also dropped in Foldens (I'm not sure of the spelling) field near peacock town, the blast shook the house my mother was in as a little girl, trapped her in the bedroom when the door jammed. A piece of shrapnel got stuck in one of the walls of the houses.My uncle was one of the wardens down Peacock town, he and another warden had one helmet between the two of them.
Peter Chamberlain Researcher This message was updated on 1/1/2003 10:43:02 AM by Peter Chamberlain	Re: Langley Mill Bombed during WW2? replied on: 12/19/2002 2:10:44 PM The German's dropped bombs on Langley Mill during World War 2 forsure but when??? I have been given several dates on this but have never found a local newspaper report. The bombs landed in the area between Station Road Bus Garages and Woodlinkin. My father was a member of the Homeguard who met in the Old Boys School and his version was the Fire Brigade set fires in the area to attract Bombers away from Derby and Nottingham which appeared to suceed. Damage seems to have been very limited i recall one cow and lots of broken glass. So has anyone got a definate date?near date? Year???
RNewman	Langley Mill Bombed during WW2? replied on: 12/18/2002 2:56:25 PM Can anyone confim something I remember my mother telling me when I was younger/ She said that during the second world war several bombs were dropped in one of the fields where the Council Estate was subsequently built. I also remember her telling me that at the time there was a rumour that the pilot was a German who had worked at the 'Wagon Works' and that he had dropped the bombs in the field rather than hurt people he had worked with

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