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BombMaps

Bean Street public shelter, off Hessle Road

14-15 March 1941 · Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire

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Date
14-15 March 1941
Record type
Historic bombing site
Bomb type
parachute-mine
Location
Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire
Position accuracy
Confirmed event, street-derived point

What happened

During the March 1941 raids on the Hessle Road and St Andrew's Dock district, a parachute mine struck a public air-raid shelter in Bean Street.

Casualty note

Deliberately left blank. Sources record that the shelter was hit and that there were multiple deaths, but give no figure, and none is invented here.

Sources