Bassett Street & Bond Street, Redruth
20 March 1941 · Redruth, Cornwall
View this record on the map →- Date
- 20 March 1941
- Record type
- Historic bombing site
- Bomb type
- HE
- Casualties
- 6
- Location
- Redruth, Cornwall
- Position accuracy
- Confirmed event, street-derived point
What happened
A lone raider followed a train into Redruth and bombed the station area and town centre, dropping eleven bombs on Bassett Street, Bond Street, Wesley Street and West Trewirgie.
Casualty note
Six killed and twelve injured, five of them seriously.
Also worth knowing
One of the eleven bombs, at East End, failed to explode.