Deadly Bombing
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1941: At 3.35 a.m. on this Saturday morning, four high-explosive bombs fell on the Priestgate/Cowgate area, damaging more than twenty houses and a dozen or so business premises. Two fire watchers were killed when one bomb demolished the part of the building they were in. Five other fire watchers were injured, three from one family. More bombs fell along Thorpe Road with minor damage and no injuries. (Gray, David, Peterborough at war 1939-1945, David Gray, 2011)
Taken from The Peterborough Book of Days by Brian Jones, The History Press, 2014.