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Thank you DC
Luftwaffe bombing was indiscriminate and the post war development was cheap and not very cheerful. The original Victorian housing stock of long terraces has become fashionable now but many surviving houses received shock damage that still is present but repaired.
The Prologue to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales mentions the fearsome reputation of the archers from Stratford-atte-Bow, so it is perhaps fitting that the developers of the area some 140 years ago chose to remember the victors of the Battle of Agincourt!
Chaucer refers to the priory at Stratford atte Bowe, not archers.
It allows you to see how the streets around you have changed over the years.
dg writes:Yes, I linked to it in the post.
In this case it reveals Arrow Street became Laindon Avenue in or before 1951 and by changing to the next map down you'll discover that Laindon Avenue was no more within ten years.
Some time ago I looked up where I lived in the 1950s, in Clapton Way (London E5 - none of those homes exist now, nor any images of them), bombing records show no bombs hit that street but a V-missile hit the junction of Rendlesham Road and Kenninghall Road some 400 yards away.
The shock wave left two houses in Clapton Way (nos 95 & 97 I think) only fit for demolition, and caused blast damage to houses either side for some distance. Where I lived (six doors away) had heavy but repairable blast damage; many houses further away on the same side of the street were less damaged, but these acted as a 'wall' protecting buildings on the other side of the street which were only mildly damaged. So Kenneth's posting wasn't too far off, as the bombing / V-attacks were indiscriminate in the extreme.
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