We are grateful to Gary Herbert for sharing this picture relating to his Grandfather Joseph Burton, and to Gary and to all those who commented on the Blackwell Derbyshire FB page with their recollections on the event of bombs falling on Blackwell. This fits well with the earlier reminiscences of Graham Peake in April 2020 who remembers the bombs falling on the day of his 11+ exam, so it would probably have been Spring 1941.
We welcome all contributions to this record of Blackwell Parish during WW2.
GaryMy Grandad's Air Raid Service ID for Blackwell. He once told me a story about a bomb that landed in the field opposite North St during the war but didn't go off. He said he had to move a crowd of daft buggers standing around a large hole containing the unexploded bomb. He said he shouted get the hell out of here and then legged it. Not daft my GrandadDT
Sounds like your grandad was in an episode of Dads Army, Don't panic Mr Mannering.
SH
I can remember bombs being dropped in those fields up Mount Pleasant. I would be about 10 or 11 My Mum woke me up telling me that the house was cracking, we used to sit under the stairs when there was an air raid, and the next morning when we went out there was a lot of shrapnel on the path. The story was that a german plane jettisoned the bombs on the way back from Sheffield.
DT
I didn't know about that bomb, but was always told that the hollow in the field next to Fordbridge Lane, that the pit ponies used to go in the holidays, was caused by a bomb. Could anyone confirm, or refute this?
JP
I'd heard about the unexploded bomb on mount pleasant x
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