I can still remember there being bomb sites when I was a kid in the early eighties, i think there was one just across from the New Theatre.

My grandma and uncle were both evacuated to Doncaster (Doncaster? Hardly The Cotwold's with John Thaw was it! ) and my granddad who was in the Parachute Regiment (I think, might have been something else) was brought back to drive a fire engine on the docks as he had an in depth knowledge of them having worked there since a nipper and could find his way around in the dark.

Apparantly the Germans used Grimsby`s dock tower as a marker for flying in.So I read somewhere.

(There is no truth in the rumour it had a big lit arrow on it.)
[Sorry to be flippant about such a serious thing,but sometimes things do need lightening a bit.]

I seem to remember somewhere that James Reckitt Avenue was the most bombed thoroughfare in the City.

A couple of my older neighbours from Garden Village told me about damage in that area and the barrage balloon on ' balloon field'.

There are quite a few photographs of the bombing of the city at Eden Camp near Malton.

The railway ran right along the back of it so no doubt they were targetting the supply routes. Certainly makes you glad you were born in this age and not have to go through that kind of nightmare.

A few years ago I returned to Hull to do some research on Jack Harrison and rugby league during the war years (WW1 & WW2). It seemed barmy but because of wartime reporting restrictions, even the HDM couldn't identify the city by name. Front page photographs of bomb-damaged local landmarks were described as a North East town

Tonight's Mail is doing a special 8 page supplement.

A couple of weeks ago, we marked the blitz of Plymouth down here. Two great cities united by a common - though horrific -experience. Both survived and have grown and thrived. I'm sure the people of Plymouth wouldn't object to me passing on their good wishes to the great people of Hull.

The really sad thing is that there's no guarantee it won't ever happen again. You do wonder about mankind sometimes.

The Blitz certainly isn't a competition but I do find it frustrating how far Hull usually comes down the list when the media etc talk about the blitz and the places that were worst affected.

Even when taught about the blitz at school we were refered to London & Coventry as examples, the fact that we're sat in Hull, the worst hit City outside of London apparently lost on my history teacher!

My Grandad was on Brindley Street throughout, had the job of operating the alarm if gas was suspected! Has some 'great' stories (as I suspect most of our parents/grandparents do) about that period.

I hope they go ahead with the memorial somewhere in the city centre.

Show some respect-RW

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I grew up not far from there and you might be thinking of the old Co-Operative building opposite NT. The original entrance is now incorporated into the flats that were built there.

I seriously doubt that mate.

I can remember real bomb sites in the 1950s, including concrete reservoirs to draw water from to help put out fires. The city then kicked into overdrive in the 1960s to regenerate.

What you probably remember is demolition sites caused by businesses closing wholesale, as a result of Thatcher's policies

She did manage to do what the Germans couldn`t.

Glad to be corrected, thanks guys. I clearly saw rubble, knew we'd been bombed and just put two and two together as a kid.

I shall take my mum to task next time I speak to her!