Acomb waterworks
29 April 1942 · York, North Yorkshire
View this record on the map →- Date
- 29 April 1942
- Record type
- Historic bombing site
- Bomb type
- HE
- Location
- York, North Yorkshire
- Position accuracy
- Confirmed site, building-level
What happened
A direct hit on the waterworks damaged the plant and the mains it fed. Between this and broken mains elsewhere in the city, water pressure failed across York while the fires from the incendiary attack were still spreading.
Also worth knowing
No casualty figure is recorded for this site.
Photographs
Photographs of the Baedeker raid
Raids Over York has a large photographic record of this night. The images belong to the York Press, Explore York, the National Railway Museum and private collectors — not to us, and not to the project either — so this links to them rather than copying them.