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Hartlepool
Brenda Road, West Hartlepool
It is 27th August 1940 and you are standing in Brenda Road, West Hartlepool. Since June the town has been under repeated attack by enemy aircraft. Night after night the warning sirens sound and everyone has to go to the air raid shelters. Sometimes it is a false alarm and nothing happens, but other times you can hear the bombs dropping. Last night they dropped on these houses. Hartlepool suffered air raids from June 1940 until March 1943, and seventy men, women and children were killed during this time. The period between July and October 1940 was the worst. During these months there were a total of 147 warnings, often several a night, lasting for hours.
Activity: Time Tourists
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