Recent content by WXMAN

Thank you for shaking me out of my entrenched ideas; the honest answer is 'No'. As I indicated in my initial post, I had formed the idea she had caught a bus at Blackfriars to get to Kingsway, so having seen accounts of lives being lost on buses it seemed the obvious conclusion. Your...

Ahh, it all begins to make sense, 30907, thank you. The only photos I've sourced of a damaged bus in High Holborn on the date in question show it to be facing east near the Chancery Lane Underground station...

My thanks for your quick reply, 30907, and an expert's look at my thinking - which was based simply on the idea she had to get off a train and onto a bus somewhere to end up in High Holborn. In my ignorance I'd assumed Blackfriars was a terminal as I couldn't see any rails on Google Earth...

I hope this is the correct forum to place this thread, but my apologies if not. I am trying to reconstruct the last journey of a young clerk who was killed at 8.50 am on 8 October 1940, when the bus in which she was travelling along High Holborn was hit by a bomb. Her home was in Bellingham...