Sign up to receive our newsletter! By the end of the three-day Allied bombing attack, the German city had been leveled and tens of thousands were dead. Our best wishes for a productive day. The town and its 10,000 residents were bombed 28 times, with nearby Aberdeen following closely behind at 24. This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Mike Millington of CSV on behalf of May Foster and has been added to the site with her permission. Topics The story was originally recorded by members of the Brampton Museum Newcastle Under LymeThey dropped bombs in Chesterton in daylight at 4 o clock in the afternoon. WW2 People's War Homepage Archive List Timeline About This Site: Contact Us: Bombs on Chesterton by StokeCSVActionDesk. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions. If you subscribe to BBC History Magazine Print or Digital Editions then you can unlock 10 years’ worth of archived history material fully searchable by Topic, Location, Period and Person. Please enter your number below.The official website for BBC History Magazine, BBC History Revealed and BBC World Histories MagazineWe recently interviewed Jonathan Boff about the ‘Blitz spirit’ for the As many people will know, for cities that were in danger of air attacks the first plan for children in the event of war was that they should be evacuated to the countryside. There seems to be a problem, please try again. People Podcast Events It was a serious problem. So, by January 1940, about a quarter of children in London were receiving full-time education; another quarter were having part-time education; and a quarter were being home-schooled, either in their own homes or perhaps in the homes of family members with sort-of wandering schoolmasters going around for an hour or so a day, marking homework and so on. By entering your details, you are agreeing to HistoryExtra One of the consequences of As a result of the crisis in education that occurred as a result of the war, everyone agreed that something needed to be done, and that bill, I think, was passed without division in the House of Commons. 1. In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's If anyone had had a rifle they could have shot at him he was so low.This story has been placed in the following categories. Large numbers of children were evacuated, and the schools were also evacuated. Thank you for subscribing to HistoryExtra, you now have unlimited access. Domestic politics. My sister was coming from the village and saw him coming over the treetops in the plane and she could see the swastika. referenced. royalwatcherblog.com/2017/09/13/buckingham-palace-bombing-1940 Following the school closures across the UK and US, our content director David Musgrove asked what parallels could be found between wartime measures and the current school closures to prevent the spread of COVID-19… those of the BBC. public. There seems to be a problem, please try again. And so it was that major reforms were brought in after the war. Why Was Dresden So Heavily Bombed? And then probably about a quarter – something like 430,000 children – were getting no education at all. We recently interviewed Jonathan Boff about the ‘Blitz spirit’ for the HistoryExtra podcast, in which he explored how ordinary people coped with the privations of World War II. Thanks!
For example, large numbers of schools were evacuated from West Ham, I think, to Oxford.Juvenile delinquency rates went through the roof – convictions for juvenile delinquency went up by a third between 1939 and 1941 – and generally, educational provision was badly disrupted.