Pickering Terrace, Newborough Street, 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
- 3
- Location
- York, North Yorkshire
- Position accuracy
- Confirmed event, street-derived point (the site has been redeveloped)
What happened
A high-explosive bomb landed in the roadway outside number 6 and destroyed eight houses outright. Three people died at number 6: seven-year-old June Leeming, her mother Doris, and Katherine Cooper.
Casualty note
Three named individuals recorded at 6 Pickering Terrace 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.