Talk:Birmingham Blitz

Image
Are there any images of the destruction of Birmingham? They would be greatly needed and appreciated on this article. - Erebus555 18:48, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Some maps showing the listed bombing targets would bring this article along, as would some more specifics of individual bombing raids on the city. According to this there were 27 raids on the city, the first on 25/26th August 1940. Linking to articles about the target sites where they are present is also needed. -- Medains 08:17, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Targets ww2
Ive added Chance Brothers, they manufactured radar and some glass components of planes... Mr John F Cheetham, was a manager there at the time. I cant find reference to him on the net but he was in the "who's who" around that period, unsure of the year but family has a copy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.5.228.118 (talk) 00:15, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Black Country
The Black Country, Birmingham's close neighbour and directly joined up to it as part of the West Midlands conurbation, was also substantially bombed during the war although not anywhere near as severely as Birmingham. Should the information on the Black Country's bomb damage (surely significant enough to warrant a mention on wikipedia, as one night of air raids in West Bromwich alone resulted in no less than 52 deaths) be included on the Birmingham page or a new page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.105.209.123 (talk) 19:54, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Removed "On 16 March 1944, a German bomber crashed in a street near the town centre, resulting in one death and several houses being severely damaged." as this plane was not German, but an RAF plane that crashed after being hit with FLAK. . I know this specifically because my grandfather was on the plane.174.112.157.94 (talk) 14:12, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

BSA
Surely it was Browning Guns which were made at BSA's factory at Armoury Road, Birmingham. The rifles were made at the BSA factory in Blossomfield Road Shirley, a mile or so south of the City boundary. My mother worked there for 21 years from 1941. I was born in Armoury Road. My father, W J Gardiner, was one of the team which set up production of the Browning Gun and was head of the Material Order Department from 1937. He was manager of the Redditch works where the Besa Gun was made at the time of his death in 1941. I experienced all 77 raids as I refused evacuation, saying to my fellow pupils at King Edward's Grammar School, Camp Hill, that I 'wanted to stay and see the fun.' The school was put out of action for a few months after damage in the big November raids. 109.154.143.189 (talk) 12:13, 16 March 2015 (UTC)G W Gardiner

I believe so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Small_Arms_Company#Second_World_War (although that is slightly ambiguous as to exactly where they were made, and I can't find any external source. A side point; you and I attended the same school, just 60-70 years apart and in completely different parts of the city!

dpchalmers (talk) 20:39, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Brierley Hill (section Black Country)
''* There was one civilian fatality in Brierley Hill. On 11 January 1941, struck the town's railway goods station, seriously injuring a worker who died more than a year later, having never recovered from his injuries.''

Two points. First, there are at least two words missing as to what exactly struck the station - I nearly presumed to insert "a bomb" but I then realised I might be guessing incorrectly - was it one bomb, or several, were they HE, landmine or incendiary? I leave it to those with access to Birmingham area based information to complete the sentence. Also, note the Commonwealth War Graves Commission lists five civilian war deaths in Brierley Hill Urban District (of which this man was one), arising from separate incidents of enemy action.Cloptonson (talk) 20:02, 12 November 2023 (UTC)