Rebuilt houses on Hurlingham Road, 2011
2011 · Hurlingham Road
The semi detached pair of houses destroyed by a bomb in WW2. Picture taken in 2011
Posted with the memories of Dennis Elwell on the Voices of Kingstanding Hurlingham Road page. Chris Hillcox writes on Voices of Kingstanding that the photo shows houses destroyed by German bombs in WW2: “The houses were quickly rebuilt in the same style but their story lives on.”
Notes
Readers differ on the bombing: one describes a 500 lb land mine destroying three houses on each side, while the caption speaks of a semi-detached pair. The same photo was also uploaded to Voices of Kingstanding as “hurlingham11”.
In Voices: “The land mine on Hurlingham Road” (Lawrence Addison) · “A barrage balloon on Dulwich Road” (Norma Bird)
Local memories
What people who knew this place have said about it, in their own words. These are memories, not checked facts.
“yes my father helped rebuild the new houses after the bombings”
“My parents lived next door to each other in the row of houses that got bombed. The Bolton family, the Sabin family and another family in the end house. My great grandmother Mrs Robinson perished in the bombing that night.”
“That’s lovely to hear your dad helped to rebuild the new houses that my parents Margaret Bolton and Ronald Sabin and my grandparents Bessy & Alexander Bolton and William Sabin … moved back into after their lengthy recuperation in hospital.”
“I also remember the bomb in Hurlingham Rd. Actually it was a 500 lb land mine and it landed in the middle of the street destroying 3 houses on each side. Only the chimney stacks were left and I believe everyone was killed.”
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