Recent content by rogs

Thank you for your kind words, gentlemen. I shall be seeing Mike shortly, so I will pass your thanks on to him. Njaco -- Mike's figure of 208 dead is taken from the notes released by Alderman Harry Mears in 1986. Harry was Civil Defence Controller in Bournemouth during the war years, and...

I appreciate that this is a bit of a gap, but I'm pleased to see the thread still running! :) Following on from my comments above, I managed to contact Mike Edgington some time ago, to ask him about the possibility of a new print run of his book. Since then, there have been one or two...

Hugh - The extract I posted was from an A4 paperback/pamphlet of some 120 pages entitled: 'Bournemouth and the Second World War 1939-1945' by M.A. Edgington, and published in 1994. The ISBN reference is 1-873887-03-5 I'm not sure how many copies were printed, but mine seems to...

Probably not important, but the quote below is almost right! AFAIK there has never been a 'Kingsway Hotel' or a 'Congresstional Church' in Bournemouth. The 'Central Hotel' and the adjacent 'Punshon Memorial Church' were damaged, the former being totally destroyed, and the latter damged...

Glad some of the information was useful! I've edited the links to the information, and made it into two multipage documents -makes it easier to read. Thanks to you guys too - I didn't know of the Chris Goss book, and am just on my way to collect my copy now. I'm looking forward to a good...

I've just come across this thread while trying to find out a little more about this raid on a general 'Google' --fascinating stuff! Sorry I'm a bit late! I've lived in Bournemouth all my life, and my family can trace their Bournemouth roots back to the 1870's. During WW2 Bournemouth was...