Courtesy of Cambridgeshire Collection
Bombs on Great Eastern Street, Cambridge
Friday 29 August 1941
During the night of 29 August 1941, German bombers dropped ten high explosive bombs, which destroyed two houses in Great Eastern Street. Two people were killed and seven people were injured.
Jack Overhill notes this in his diary entry of 29th August.
Building dates
- Built by 1899
Source for this date
- Built by 1899: EPC construction age band: before 1900
Sources
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