Nunthorpe Road, Scarcroft
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
- 4
- Location
- York, North Yorkshire
- Position accuracy
- Confirmed event, street-derived point
What happened
Bombs fell on Nunthorpe Road south of the city walls, killing four people across numbers 45, 46 and 49 — among them nine-year-old Noel Boyes and his mother Ethel, and twelve-year-old Betty Akers.
Casualty note
Four named individuals recorded in Nunthorpe Road 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.