Burton Stone Lane, Clifton
29 April 1942 · York, North Yorkshire
View this record on the map →- Date
- 29 April 1942
- Record type
- Historic bombing site
- Bomb type
- HE
- Casualties
- 5
- Location
- York, North Yorkshire
- Position accuracy
- Confirmed event, street-derived point
What happened
A high-explosive bomb fell in the back garden of number 16. Five people were killed, four of them women and one a two-year-old child, Janet Campbell.
Casualty note
Five named individuals recorded at 16 Burton Stone Lane in the Raids Over York casualty register.
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.