Westminster Road, 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 (two separate streets)
What happened
Bombs fell on Westminster Road at numbers 16 to 18 and again, as a direct hit, on number 47. Three people were killed: William Trotter, 60, at number 16, and the sisters Emily and Frances Cherry, 77 and 79, at number 18.
Casualty note
Three named individuals recorded in Westminster 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.