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Bombs and Machine Guns Hit Holderness Road

Edited and typed by L Collier

As a child, I remember the nightly bombing of Hull. We all crammed into the air-raid shelter. I was one of ten children where we spent many hours in the dark and cold.

I remember particularly the bombing of Holderness Road. It had been a bad night in the shelter and the next morning when we ventured out, a scene of devastation met our eyes. Woolworths was flattened! Anything that was still intact had being sold off on the pavement outside. Jacksons opposite had all been shot with shrapnel at the front. The wooden blinds were full of holes and the children collected the shrapnel and used it for swaps at school.

Two of our neighbours’, happened to be leaving the Savoy Cinema at the time of the bombing. They were hit by machine-gunfire, the woman in her shoulder and her son in his leg. It was after that, that I realised the effects of this nightly bombardment by the Germans’.

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