Category Notable Bomb Sites

41 Alfred Road, Ore, Hastings

41 Alfred Road

On Thursday September 12th 150 incendiary bombs and 15 high explosive bombs were dropped on Clive Vale, Ore. Edmund Road and Alfred Road were hit particularly badly. Jane Bumstead and William Dowding were killed when their home was destroyed in…

35 St Peter’s Road, St Leonards

35 St Peter's Road

On Tuesday 10th September 1940 at 5:30pm nine high explosive bombs were dropped across St Leonard’s at Hollington Park, The Green, Sedlescombe Road South, Tower Road West, St Peter’s Road, Cloudsley Road, Woodland Vale Road and Christchurch School. Around 30…

Harley Shute, St Leonards

Harley Shute

On 15th August 1940, two German bombers dropped 10 high explosive bombs on Harley Shute, Maze Hill and Saxon Street in St Leonards. Maggie May Wright was killed at her home at Briar Mead, Harley Shute and two others were…

139 Priory Road, Hastings

139 Priory Road

The first ‘tip and run’ raid on Hastings during WW2 occurred on 26th July 1940 a little after 7am. A single fighter bomber dropped 11 high explosive bombs on the Cricket Ground, Gladstone Terrace, Whitefriars Road and Priory Road. The…

Swan Hotel, Hastings Old Town

[soliloquy id=”1111″]   At 1pm on Sunday the 23rd May 1943, German fighter bombers, probably Focke Wulf 190s, swept across Hastings and St Leonards in a ‘tip and run’ raid. They dropped 25 high explosive bombs and sprayed machine gun…