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That was exactly what I was going to say!

My las name is Heslington. I live in Nampa Idaho USA.

Thank you

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The station was destroyed, one A4: 4469, B16: 925 were destroyed upon impact.

I was a student in York 1966-9 and remember the Cattle Market well. The bus to Heslington used to pass through it. Going back recently, it's hard to imagine it ever existed.

I believe all these raids on the historic parts we're ordered by Goring. His reason was jealousy what he couldn't steal he destroyed. He wanted to possess it all, he was a trophy Hunter and hoarder of stolen tresures. Right down to his pet lion cubs who should have been with their mother. He was just a low life scumbag, no a murdering low life scumbag. 😠

Anne, the little girl whose house got bombed, is my grandmother! Hearing her tell stories of this day is fascinating

For hundreds of years, the British Empire went around the world bomb(ard)ing and terrorizing nations around the world. Not a week goes by and some new attrocity is unearthed from dark archives: for example, search "The Bombardement of Alexandria in 1882" (then click on "images"). Looks a lot like Coventry, doesn't it? Kagoshima, Canton, Sebastopol (Krim War), and and dozens of others. Such fun to have own leaders coining the term *"Copenhagenization"* to mock the children they burnt alive while cheering on the historical heroes committing such acts. Victims? Who cares about victims? Right? From wiki: *"Oh, that example of Copenhagen has worked wonders in the world!...I (would) like to see the name of that city become a verb ... 'cities will be copenhagenized' is an excellent phrase."* William Cobbet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagenization Excellent indeed... *So around the world they went, turning towns and cities and entire kingdoms into "mere verbs"...* Such great fun, bomb(ard)ing everybody else, but not being bomb(ard)ed oneself. Terror bombing countless villages as the weapons improved, but the practice remained: creating uncounted victims because nobody cared enough. In Mesopotamia, and Aden, the Sudan, and then euphamistically terming this "Air Policing". Makes you think "terror" is really just your friendly neighborhood Bobby, right? When they invaded half the planet, their "heroes" wrote stories about how exiting it was to "dodge bullets" and bomb(ard) countries without declaring war. The locals defending their own? Mowing down natives armed with spears, with machine guns? Pfffft. Who gives a... Famines accompanied by racial slurs of "breeding like rabbits anyway", sticking women and kids into concentration camps, scorched earth policies, torture chambers, slave labor camps (called "penal colonies"), and the list goes on... No doubt getting a bit of their own medicine when their own cities burned down, and V-2s killed their kids, and they finally knew what it felt like. Not so "exiting" dodging rockets, right? Not so nice "reaping" what had been "sown" for a few hundred years, eh? Not so great having own *cities turned into verbs, right?* Londonization, Liverpoolization, Hullization, Doverization...Coventrization. All of a sudden, they were sooooo tired of all that "Empire"-stuff... Brits are nice today, but back then they simply had to be taught a lesson they wouldn't forget.

The German Bomber officer that was shot down said he thought some of the people that found him, after crashing in England, must hate him for being German. I thought instantly after hearing this statement No, I feel these people that might be feeling hate towards you is because you were just shortly before this time, in the act of dropping bombs on a city full of human beings. You could be from anywhere in the world and still have hate directed at you when you take part in an act of bombing cities full of people. This is an example of the warped thinking of human beings, when nations go to war and somehow makes acts like this ok. It's not enough to have a killing fields full of soldiers, war somehow needs innocents blood at well, , ,

Wow

My Grandparents lived in Hungate until it was knocked down, the photos match what little my Gran ever said about the area.

I have one of the images and I was trying to find it all over the internet and I found it in this video

Mentioned in the Secret Diary of Adrian Mole.

crazy new earswick acctually looks like a nice place to live here

All well put together great to see the mix. Thanks to those who contributed that's what makes york past and present work.

Remember Howard on market shown in clip with his banter and not one not two but.... banter?

As a frequent visitor to York I know Hungate well and the photos are fascinating. But some identifying labels of the lost streets would have been great. Maybe a side by side map showing then and now

It's interesting to understand the full impact on the various land marks in removing the bridge. As no trains have passed under the bridge in my lifetime I have always thought of it as a hill with a bend in the road while travelling up it from Blossom Street.

I like to share this bomb crater in South Wales. th-cam.com/video/fFqO7e3JrEA/w-d-xo.html

@1:12 - I remember as a kid there being the underground toilets shown here (on the left) with what I believe was a taxi rank alongside them in early '70's. Later on they built the underground 'Splash Palace' ones at the opposite end of Picadilly after removing these. Splash has also now gone, I guess under disabled access laws. @2:12 the cattle pens were still around near the Barbican gate at the same time but there were no longer markets there.

My mother's asches are scaterd on the niavsmire

A trip i though I would never see again. Amazing sensation thanks

'I'm sitting on a bomb. I can hear it ticking.' Chills right there.

Fantastic film. I remember the extra two tracks through the center of the station, now reduced to two. I also remember the platform guards in the little kiosk and the metal gates next to them and paying 1d for a platform ticket around 1970.

How old is this documentary?

I love the Dennis Lancet bus at 1:12: big 4-cylinder engine thumping away, I imagine.

If German planes flew that low you can tell the age of the crew at night, well......I call BS on that one. We dropped our bombs in the direction of the industrial quarter......again, BS, what industrial quarter? A convent school killing pupils and nuns. Their sanctimonious attitude about RAF 'terror fliers' makes me want to puke. They start another war, bomb Warsaw and Rotterdam to the ground, murder millions of innocents in concentration camps, commit horrific war crimes and the bitch about their cities being bombed. It beggars belief and even more astounding is that many of our own people vilified the bomber crews who died in their thousands for them.

I can’t imagine what the people of England experienced during the blitz. It must have been beyond horrific. God Bless the people who died and those that survived this awful period in world history. 🇨🇦

Thank You so very much for sharing this important part of my ancestry . I never dreamed that I would be able to see videos like this .

Richarlison >Firmino

The most amazing aspect of this documentary was learning about the contributions of the German people, given to help rebuild the church that was bombed. It angers me that in this day and age we have tin pot dictator types leading large nations and shaking their fists and threatening ‘retaliation’ instead of learning from the past and striving to support and care for ALL of humanity.

After this, Germans got it back with the Hanover 1,000 plane raid. Horror, begets horror. I remember blacked out homes, and ration cards - at age 4 years.

great video. thank you.

Some of the tram roses that helped to support the overhead power cables can still be seen on some buildings, copper gate onto Ness Gate has a good few. I have also noticed that the tramline traction poles that guided the overhead power cables have been placed in various parts of the city. Even in places where no tramlines run. There is one on the mount and Haxby road that are in there originally sited place.

Is it possible to obtain prints of some of these photos?

Picked up from a huge bed , as a tiny child, a voice said:: where's his mum?: another voice said "Down the pub"

Bit rich of Hitler calling Churchill a criminal.

good shit

My Mum was a 17 year old clerk at Barclays Bank in Scarborough. The morning after the raid she was sent to York to help clear up the main Barclays branch in York. She could remember walking through loads of glass and looking at the burnt out and burning buildings . She came and went by train for quite a few days. Would you see a17 year old girl doing that today !

My Grand parents house in Alquin Ave York still bears machine gun marks from that night!

good grief, people were so strong & true than. the people today are so soft and whinny and expect so much .

I recently attended the funeral of an ex colleague whose house was bombed in York. He was about three at the time and he and his sisters were buried. They were found because his crying attracted the attention of the rescuers.

I watched this just because my fathers house was hit and demolished in this raid of April 42 - bit surprised to see the street - Lavender Grove get a mention in this. Due to some earlier bombing they'd decided to move out to Scarborough a few weeks before though so they escaped it - just. They sheltered in the house during the raids.

The evil that men do!

WWII trauma? You didn’t talk about it; you put it on a shelf in a dark corner of your mind and forged on. It shaved years, sometimes a decade or more from many people’s lives. Others managed to keep it hidden or keep themselves hidden from it, and live on.

Glad the budgie survived!

I live near york so sad that it was bombed RIP the people who died:(

Very well put together, especially the Blake St 1942 view when it was discussed recently

Well done Everyone.